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Foundation provides awards to physician–scientists
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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation presented Clinical Scientist Development Awards to 17 junior physician–scientists.
The recipients are between 1 and 5 years into their first faculty appointments. The awards — which consist of $495,000 per year for 3 years — are designed to support recipients’ transition into independent clinical research careers.
“Physician–scientists’ work as health care providers supplies them with invaluable insights into the study of human disease, which is why it is crucial to support them,” Betsy Myers, PhD, the foundation’s program director for medical research, said in a press release. “They often experience difficulties balancing research and clinical duties during the early stages of their careers. With the Clinical Scientist Development Awards, we hope to bolster their ability to pursue clinical research at this critical time in their careers, so that they can continue to make important contributions to the field over the long term.”
Four of the recipients are focused on oncology. They are David M. Barrett, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Jaehyuk Choi, MD, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology and assistant professor biochemistry and molecular genetics at Northwestern University; Dan J. Raz, MD, assistant professor at City of Hope; and Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD, assistant professor at University of Michigan.