The ASCI’s 2017 Young Physician-Scientist Awards

The ASCI is pleased to announce the 39 recipients of its 2017 Young Physician-Scientist Awards. The Awardees will present their work at the ASCI’s Food & Science Evening, on April 22, 2017, as part of the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting, April 21-23, 2017.

Awardee Institution
Olujimi A. Ajijola, MD, PhD University of California, Los Angeles
Himisha Beltran, MD Weill Cornell Medical College
Ankit Bharat, MBBS, FACS Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Michael Chattergoon, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Helen Y. Chu, MD, MPH University of Washington
Paul Cohen, MD, PhD The Rockefeller University
Matthew Steven Davids, MD, MMSc Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Robert Pickett Dickson, MD University of Michigan Medical School
Jennifer Alzos Downs, MD, MSc, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
Maros Ferencik, MD, PhD Oregon Health & Science University
Gabriel Ghiaur, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University
Ethan Michael Goldberg, MD, PhD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Matthew Blake Greenblatt, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
Yogendra Kanthi, MD University of Michigan Medical School
Kory J. Lavine, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine
Jens G. Lohr, MD, PhD Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Matthew D. Neal, MD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sahar Nissim, MD, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Edwin Ostrin, MD, PhD MD Anderson Cancer Center
Lale Ozcan, MD Columbia University Medical Center
Marta Peciña, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh
Hallie C. Prescott, MD, MSc University of Michigan
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum, MD, PhD Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Rajesh C. Rao, MD University of Michigan
Nataliya Razumilava, MD University of Michigan
Michael Satlin, MD, MS Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Robert W. Schnepp, MD, PhD Emory University School of Medicine
Natalie D. Shaw, MD, MMSc NIH, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Matthew A. Sparks, MD Duke University School of Medicine
Cullen Mitsuo Taniguchi, MD, PhD The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD University of Michigan Medical School
Philip A. Verhoef, MD, PhD University of Chicago
Taia Wang, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Michael Emmerson Ward, MD, PhD NIH, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Brendon O. Watson, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medicine
Marc Nathan Wein, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
James Michael Wells, MD University of Alabama at Birmingham
Min Xie, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham
Kelley Yan, MD, PhD Columbia University Medical Center

Gordon F. Tomaselli elected as next JCI Editor in Chief

Dr. Tomaselli

The ASCI is pleased to announce the election of Gordon F. Tomaselli, MD, as Editor of the Journal of Clinical Investigation (ASCI profile). Dr. Tomaselli’s tenure as Editor begins July 1 and extends to June 30, 2022. Dr. Tomaselli is Michel Mirowski, MD, Professor of Cardiology; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine; and Chief, Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is an expert in the fields of sudden cardiac death and arrhythmias, with research focused on ion channel structure, function, and remodeling.

Dr. Tomaselli is the 24th editor of the JCI, and his election represents the first time Johns Hopkins will host the journal’s Editorial Board, which since its founding in 1924 has had 5-year tenures at academic medical centers. Serving alongside Dr. Tomaselli as Deputy Editors will be Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Diabetes, whose research focuses on central and peripheral regulation of energy homeostasis, and glucose and lipid metabolism; and Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and Infectious Diseases, who studies fungal and bacterial pathogenesis and basic immunology of antibody structure-function.

The distinguished Editorial Board of Johns Hopkins faculty members serving as JCI Associate Editors will include Richard F. Ambinder, MD, PhD (oncology), Mark E. Anderson, MD, PhD (cardiology), Mary Y. Armanios, MD (oncology, aging), William R. Bishai, MD, PhD (infectious disease), Robert A. Brodsky, MD (hematology), Peter A. Calabresi, MD (neuroinflammation), Thomas L. Clemens, PhD (bone biology), Franco R. D’Alessio, MD (pulmonology), Ted M. Dawson, MD, PhD (neuroscience), Angelo M. DeMarzo, MD, PhD (oncology), Stephen Desiderio, MD, PhD (immunology, cell biology), Harry C. Dietz III, MD (genetics), Mark Donowitz, MD (gastroenterology), Andrew P. Feinberg, MD, MPH (genetics), Sharon Gerecht, PhD (vascular biology, tissue engineering), Paul M. Hassoun, MD (pulmonology), Elizabeth M. Jaffe, MD (oncology, immunology), David A. Kass, MD (cardiology), Kieren A. Marr, MD (infectious disease, transplantation), Timothy H. Moran, PhD (metabolism and psychiatric disorders), William Nelson, MD, PhD (oncology), Brian O’Rourke, PhD (cardiology), Ben Ho Park, MD, PhD (oncology), Jonathan D. Powell, MD, PhD (immunology), Thomas C. Quinn, MD (infectious disease), Hamid Rabb, MD (nephrology), Stuart C. Ray, MD (infectious disease), Antony Rosen, MD (rheumatology), Jeffrey D. Rothstein, MD, PhD (neuroscience), Scheherazade Sadegh-Nasseri, PhD (immunology), Jonathan Schneck, MD, PhD (immunology), Gregg L. Semenza, MD, PhD (cell biology, signaling), Robert F. Siliciano, MD, PhD (infectious disease, HIV), Charlotte Sumner, MD (muscle biology), David L. Thomas, MD, MPH (infectious disease), and Robert G. Weiss, MD (cardiology, energetics).

Applications for JCI Editor were evaluated by the JCI Editor Selection Committee: Vivian G. Cheung (Chair), Benjamin L. Ebert, Jonathan A. Epstein, Helen H. Hobbs, Brendan Lee, Andrew R. Marks, Charles L. Sawyers, Arthur Weiss, Stephen J. Weiss, and Leonard I. Zon. The ASCI Council approved the recommended candidate, whose selection was submitted for a vote by the Active members of the Society. The vote approving the selection of Dr. Tomaselli was confirmed May 17, 2017.