Staff Recognized for Excellence at Fall 2023 Town Hall Meeting
, by Maura Kate Costello, M.A.
DCEG Division Director Stephen J. Chanock, M.D., announced several awards at the Fall 2023 DCEG hybrid Town Hall.
DCEG Appreciation Award
Jung Kim, Ph.D., staff scientist in the Clinical Genetics Branch (CGB), for service to the division through her effective communication, project management, and expertise in computer science, statistics, and molecular genetics.
2023 Distinguished Scientific Service Award
Sarah Locke, M.S., M.S.P.H., assistant director and staff scientist in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB)
2023 Outstanding Paper Award by a Staff Scientist / Staff Clinician
Julia Gage, Ph.D., M.P.H., staff scientist in CGB for the paper, "Cervical Precancers and Cancers Attributed to HPV Types by Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Vaccination, Screening, and Management," published in JNCI.
Lene H.S. Veiga, Ph.D., staff scientist in the Radiation Epidemiology Branch (REB), for the paper, "Treatment-related thoracic soft tissue sarcomas in US breast cancer survivors: a retrospective cohort study," published in Lancet Oncology.
2023 Outstanding Paper Award by a Fellow
Lola Étiévant, Ph.D., in the Biostatistics Branch, for the paper, "Increasing efficiency and reducing bias when assessing HPV vaccination efficacy by using nontargeted HPV strains,” published in Biometrics.
Oscar Florez-Vargas, Ph.D., M.Sc., in the Laboratory of Translation Genomics (LTG), for the paper, "Genetic regulation of OAS1 nonsense-mediated decay underlies association with COVID-19 hospitalization in patients of European and African ancestries," published in Nature Genetics.
Wayne Lawrence, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., in the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB), for the paper, "Trends in Cancer Mortality Among Black Individuals in the US From 1999 to 2019," published in JAMA Oncology.
Erping Long, M.D., Ph.D., in LTG, for the paper, "Massively parallel reporter assays and variant scoring identified functional variants and target genes for melanoma loci and highlighted cell-type specificity," published in American Journal of Human Genetics.
Qianlai Luo, Ph.D., in the Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch, for the paper, "Years of life lost to cancer among the United States HIV population, 2006-2015," published in AIDS.
Marena Niewisch, M.D., Ph.D., in CGB, for the paper, "Disease progression and clinical outcomes in telomere biology disorders," published in Blood.
Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Ph.D., in MEB, for the paper, "Estimated Number of Deaths Prevented Through Increased Physical Activity Among US Adults," published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
2024 NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence
Batel Blechter, Ph.D., M.A., postdoctoral fellow in OEEB
Vicky Chang, Ph.D., M.P.H., postdoctoral fellow in OEEB
Sheng Fu, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in BB
Alexandra R. Harris, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., postdoctoral fellow in ITEB
Shisi (Lydia) He, M.S., predoctoral fellow in OEEB
Aubrey K. Hubbard, Ph.D., M.P.H., postdoctoral fellow in ITEB
Rebecca Landy, Ph.D., research fellow, CGB
Jungeun Lim, Ph.D., M.P.H., postdoctoral fellow in MEB
Jim Mai, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in REB
Cato Milder, Ph.D., M.S.P.H., postdoctoral fellow in REB
Alaina Shreves, M.S., predoctoral fellow in MEB
Karena Volesky, Ph.D., M.A., M.S., Postdoctoral Fellow, IIB
Eleanor L. Watts, D.Phil., M.P.H., Postdoctoral Fellow, MEB