May 2, 2008
2 Biomedical Scientists Are First Women to Win $500,000 Prize in Medicine
Two biomedical scientists are the first women to receive the $500,000
Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the
largest award in American medicine.
The prize was awarded this morning to Elizabeth Blackburn, of the
University of California at San Francisco, and Joan Steitz, of Yale
University. The award, which is presented by the Albany Medical
Center, in New York, honors their molecular-biology research, which
could advance treatment for a variety of diseases.
Morris Silverman created the prize in 2000 with a $50-million
donation to the medical center. The prize recognizes scientists who
are pre-eminent in the field and whose work has significant
implications in medicine. All recipients of the award since it was
first presented, in 2001, have been men. -Hurley Goodall
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*****ADDRESS AS OF JULY 2007*****
Deborah L. Galson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry
University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Center for Bone Biology/Division of Hematology-Oncology
Mailing address:
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
R&D 151-U, Rm. 2E-114
University Drive C
Pittsburgh, PA 15240
Office: R&D 151-U, Rm. 2E-107
Lab: R&D 151-U, Rm. 2W-143
Tel (Office): 412-688-6000 (x81-3134)
Tel (Lab): 412-688-6000 (x81-3132)
Tel (Secretary): 412-688-6000 (x81-4306)
FAX: 412-688-6960
Cell: 724-612-1830
Email: galson at pitt.edu
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