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2004 Awards
Bennett J. Cohen Educational Leadership Award
Patricia Mucci-LoRusso, D.O., of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit has been given the Bennett J. Cohen Educational and Leadership Award by the Michigan Society for Medical Research. The Cohen award recognizes individuals whose activities and attitudes promote the understanding of biomedical research, science education, and public and animal health. She is being recognized for her work, which is translating basic research and drug development in animal models to application, treatment for cancer patients in phase one trials. She says her work "sometimes results in help, sometimes in heartbreak, but always in hope." Dr. Mucci-LoRusso is director of the Phase I Clinical Trials Program at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and has published nearly 50 journal articles, 50 abstracts, and 5 book chapters on treatment options for various cancers. She oversees the earliest, preliminary human tests of new cancer drugs on a small number of patients who have no other options. In addition to developing potential new cancer drugs at the Institute, LoRusso also works closely with drug companies whose innovations have been approved by the FDA for human testing. In 1999 she won the Heroes of Breast Cancer Award.
Science Education Award
MISMR honors Ms. Jill Karolyi this year with the Science Education Award. Ms. Karolyi is a Senior Research Associate with Dr. Sally Camper at University of Michiganbs Department of Human Genetics, where she also supervises the Mouse Facilities. Her most recent research with Dr. Camper is the investigation of the role of Myosin XV in hearing loss in mice and the correction of this hearing loss through oral thyroid hormone replacement. Also, the investigation of two spontaneous growth deficient mutant strains of mice to determine skeletal anomolies and to map the mutated gene. Science Education Award, established in 1993, is given to individuals who have been instrumental in developing, implementing or contributing to an advocacy program that promotes science and science education.
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MISMR members strongly support humane animal study in research. We hope that likeminded citizens will join us in working for rational public policy that assures the continued appropriate use of animals in the course of good science. |