Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar Michelle Kahlenberg, MD, PhD, recently was selected for a prestigious lectureship by the Rheumatology Research Foundation. Dr. Kahlenberg is a rheumatologist and assistant professor of internal medicine at U-M. In addition to caring for patients, she runs a research laboratory that specializes in the study of systemic lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune…
The 10th Annual Taubman Institute Symposium featured a tribute to the institute’s first decade and a keynote by Taubman Prize recipient and multiple sclerosis thought leader Stephen L. Hauser, MD.
Diabetes and obesity researcher Charles Burant, M.D., Ph.D., has been named director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at Michigan Medicine.
He succeeds Eva L. Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., who has served as director since the institute was founded in 2007 with a gift from the late philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman. Its mission is to enhance the support of physician-researchers at the University of Michigan through financial grants, mentoring programs and a collaborative community of Taubman Scholars.
“I’m thrilled to take the institute into its second decade,” said Burant. “I’m especially honored to be following my friend and mentor Eva Feldman in this position. As founding director of the institute, Dr. Feldman has built a world-class center that has helped multiple clinician-investigators in a critical stage of their careers, and led to discoveries that already are making a difference in people’s lives.
2017 Taubman Prize winner’s research led to new drug treatment for MS
Ann Arbor, Mich — A physician-researcher whose work challenged conventional thinking about multiple sclerosis (MS) is the 2017 recipient of the $100,000 Taubman Prize for Excellence in Translational Medical Research, the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute announced.
Stephen L. Hauser, M.D., director of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and professor and chair of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, will receive the honor in recognition of his paradigm-changing discoveries that paved the way for a highly effective drug in the treatment of MS.
Hauser will accept the award and deliver a keynote talk at the Taubman Institute’s annual symposium on October 20 in Ann Arbor.
Taubman Emerging Scholar Rajesh C. Rao, M.D., won The American Society for Clinical Investigation’s Young Physician-Scientist Award, which includes an invitation to present his groundbreaking eye cancer research and be recognized at its 2017 Joint Meeting in Chicago April 21-23.
Women In Science Conference – June 7, 2017, Ann Arbor. Comparable numbers of women and men train in medical fields but fewer women achieve the rank of professor.
Taubman Institute Chief Innovation Officer Parag G. Patil, MD, PhD, will participate in “The Autonomous Patient: Entrepreneurs Driving Health Care” seminar.
2018 Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar Symposium April 13, 2018 8:30 am – 12:30 pm 5050 Brehm Tower The Taubman Institute is pleased to showcase the work of four outstanding clinician-scientists at its 2018 Emerging Scholars Symposium on April 13. The newest Taubman Scholar, Donna Martin, MD, PhD, will present the keynote talk, “Novel Insights into…