Kidney Cancer Association presents rising star award
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pavlos Msaouel, MD, PhD, received the Kidney Cancer Association’s Christopher G. Wood Rising Star Award.
The award — presented at International Kidney Cancer Symposium: North America — recognizes a talented young kidney cancer expert “who clearly is going to be leading us forward in our battle" against the disease,” Bradley C. Leibovich, MD, medical director for Center for Digital Health and professor of urology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, said during his introduction of Msaouel.
Msaouel is a clinician and cancer biologist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center who specializes in translational research for treatment of genitourinary cancers.
His clinical interests include treatment of patients with urothelial carcinoma and renal cell carcinoma. He has a particular interest in rare variants, such as renal medullary carcinoma.
Msaouel’s clinical research focuses on development and implementation of novel clinical trial designs.
His laboratory research interests include the role of defects in subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complex — such as SMARCB1 — in the biology of genitourinary malignancies.
“He is incredibly brilliant, and he is really pushing us to advance the science of kidney cancer on multiple fronts,” Leibovich said.
The award is named after Wood, the association’s past board chair. Wood — who died in November 2021 — spent 26 years at MD Anderson, most recently serving as deputy chair of the department of urology.
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