Eminent Scholar Award Recipients

2013
Barbara Gilchrest, M.D. - Professor and former chair of the Department of Dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center. 

2012
Pamela J. Bjorkman, Ph.D. - Max Delbruck Professor of Biology, Investigator Howard Hugues Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology presented her keynote, "Overcoming HIV Pathways for Escape using Rationally-Designed Anti-HIV Antibodies", and received the 2012 MUSC Eminent Scholar Award. https://depthtml.musc.edu/catalyst/2012/co12-14aids.html

2011
Cynthia Kenyon, Ph.D. - Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco - Director of the Hillblom Center for the Biology of Aging at UCSF presented her keynote, "Cells and Pathways that Control the Aging of C.elegans", and received the 2011 MUSC Eminent Scholar Award. http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2011/co10-14scientist.html

2010
Kristi Anseth, Ph.D. - Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado-Boulder, presented her keynote "Swell Gels: Engineering Biomaterials to Promote Healing" and received the 2010 MUSC Eminent Scholar Award.  http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/anseth_bio.html

2009
Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D - Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development from The Rockefeller University, presented her keynote “Stem Cells of the Skin: Biology and Clinical Promise” and received the 2009 MUSC Eminent Scholar award. http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/fuchs_bio.html

2008
Catherine D. DeAngelis, M.D., M.P.H. -  Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and Scientific Publications and Professor, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, presented her seminar and received the 2008 MUSC Eminent Scholar Award. http://pubs.ama-assn.org/homepage/media/health_of_nation/bio_deangelis.pdf

2007
Constance Cepko -  Professor of Genetics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Harvard Medical School, presented her seminar and received the inaugural MUSC Eminent Scholar Award. http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/cepko_bio.html