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Lea Grinberg, MD PhD named to list of most influential scientists for 2024!

Congratulations to Lea Grinberg, neuropathologist, named to Clarivate’s list of most influential scientists for 2024.

Congratulations to WPSS members on new NIH grants in 2024

Congratulations! to WPSS members on new K grants in 2024! (updated 11/2024) Muriel Babey (Medicine)- K08 Joanna Balcerek (Lab Medicine) - K38

Dr. Carolyn Sangokoya receives UCSF 2024 Chancellor Award for Advancement of Women

Carolyn Sangokoya, MD PhD has been selected for the UCSF 2024 Chancellor's Award for Advancement of Women. Congrats Dr. Sangokoya! View the commemorative video here.

Congrats to Courtney Lane-Donovan MD, PhD on 2024 Irene Perstein Award 

Courtney Lane-Donovan MD, PhD has received the 2024 Irene Perstein Award! 

Congrats to Arielle Klepper, MD PhD - named a 2024 UCSF Watson Scholar! and recipient of a 2024 UCSF Liver Center Pilot grant!

Arielle Klepper, MD, PhD, was named a 2024 UCSF Watson Scholar this spring and awarded a 2024 UCSF Liver Center Pilot and Feasibility award this summer! She is a newly appointed assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Lucy Kornblith, MD inaugural Director of Research at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center Campus

Congratulations to Lucy Kornblith, MD - named the inaugural Director of Research at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital & Trauma Center Campus! Lucy is a trailblazer, a fantastic resource and member of the WPSS Advisory Board, an outstanding surgeon-scientist, and Director of the Muriel Steele...

Congrats to Christina Theodoris, MD PhD- named as 2024 Searle Scholar

Congrats to Christina Theodoris, MD PhD -- named to the 2024 Class of Searle Scholars! https://searlescholars.org/2024/05/23/scholars-for-2024/  

Congrats to Christina Homer, MD PhD- named as UCSF Physician-Scientist Scholar 2024

congratulations to Christina Homer, MD PhD  - 2024 awardee named as a UCSF Physician-Scientist Scholar. Read more about this award, her work and training https://pssp.ucsf.edu/scholars! Dr. Homer aims to ultimately develop better treatments for coccidioidomycosis. 

Congrats to Tiffany Scharschmidt, MD elected to ASCI 2024!

Congratulations to Dr. Tiffany Scharschmidt on election to ASCI. Also congrats to ASCI YPSA awardees Drs.

WPSS hosts Women in Science Panel for International Women's Day #IWD2024

Women in Science: Moving Forward in Academic Science, Engineering, and Medicine