Carol Greider receives Outstanding Investigator Award from National Cancer Institute

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Carol Greider, the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and a professor of molecular biology and genetics, has received an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute. The award was established in 2015 for principal investigators who have achieved significant research accomplishments. It provides funding of up to $600,000 in direct costs per year for seven years, allowing the awarded investigators to continue or begin projects of unusual potential in cancer research. Greider, a Nobel laureate, directs a group of scientists studying the role of short telomeres in both age-related disease and cancer.

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Leonard Feldman, an associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Medicine-Pediatrics Urban Health Residency Program, has received an Educational Scholarship Award from the School of Medicine's Institute for Excellence in Education. The award is designed primarily for a faculty member who has a notable body of educational scholarship work, which can include publications, workshops, and other means of disseminating information, and contributions to other institutions.

Judith Goldstein, an associate professor of ophthalmology and rehabilitative medicine and chief of the Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation Service at the Wilmer Eye Institute, was awarded the 2017 Humanitarian of the Year Award by the Lions Multiple District 22-C. Goldstein received the award for her landmark research in vision rehabilitation and her commitment to extending low-vision services to a population in need.

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Gordon Tomaselli, a professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Cardiology, was named the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation at the American Society for Clinical Investigation/Association of American Physicians' joint meeting in Chicago in April. Tomaselli will serve a five-year term with an editorial board of peer scientists based at Johns Hopkins.