Yilun Ma, fifth year student in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has been awarded an F30 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The award will support Mr. Ma's research in the White Lab at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he is currently working toward his PhD.
The Olaf S. Andersen Physician-Scientist Award was created to honor the legacy of Dr. Olaf S. Andersen, Program Director of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program from 1996 - 2021. The award will be given annually, starting this year, to an MD-PhD student finishing their 3rd year of medical school.There are seven criteria for the award:
Dr. Alex Gitlin (Tri-I MD-PhD graduating class of 2017) was recently named a recipient of a 2022 NIH Director's Early Independence Award. Dr. Gitlin, who joined the faculty at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the fall of 2022, was given the award in support of his project Regulation of Proinflammatory Cytokine Responses by a Caspase-8-N4BP1 Axis.
