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Awards and Honors

Dr. Denise R. Aberle (RES ’85), professor of radiology and bioengineering and vice chair for research in the Department of Radiological Sciences, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Benjamin E. Bonavida, Distinguished Research Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, received the Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award.

Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael (FEL ’01), Frances Stark Professor of Neurology, chair of the Department of Neurology and codirector of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, was elected to the Association of American Physicians.

Dr. Amander Clark, professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology and a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, was elected vice president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research.

Dr. Gabriel Danovitch, John J. Kuiper Professor of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation and medical director of the UCLA Kidney Transplant Program, received the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Transplantation.

Dr. Robert Ettenger, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Pediatric Nephrology, received the lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Transplantation.

Dr. Marco Giovannini, professor-in-residence of head and neck surgery and a member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the 2021 Friedrich von Recklinghausen Award from the Children’s Tumor Foundation.

Dr. Josephine B. Isabel- Jones, professor emerita of pediatrics, received the Carole E. Goldberg Emeriti Service Award.

Dr. Anusha Kalbasi (MD ’11), assistant professor of radiation oncology and a researcher at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was selected as a NextGen Star by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Dr. Donald Kohn, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, director of the UCLA Human Gene and Cell Therapy Program and a member of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA and the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received a career achievement award from the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy.

Dr. Kenneth L. Lange, Rosenfeld Professor of Computational Genetics, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Carol M. Mangione, Barbara A. Levey, MD, & Gerald S. Levey, MD Professor of Medicine and Public Health and chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

Dr. Gatien Moriceau, assistant adjunct professor of medicine and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the Melanoma Research Alliance Young Investigator Award from the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Dr. Elizabeta Nemeth, professor of medicine and director of the Center for Iron Disorders, received the 2021 William Dameshek Prize from the American Society of Hematology.

Dr. Warwick J. Peacock, professor emeritus of neurosurgery, received the Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award.

Dr. Cristina Puig Saus, adjunct assistant professor of medicine and hematology- oncology and senior fellow at the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, received the Leveraged Finance Fights Melanoma-MRA Young Investigator Award from the Melanoma Research Alliance.

Johnese Spisso, MPA, president of UCLA Health and CEO of UCLA Hospital System, was named 2021 Hospital CEO or President of the Year by the Los Angeles Business Journal.


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  • UCLA In The Time of AIDS: In The Beginning
  • The Lingering Aftermath of 9/11
  • ‘No’ Is Never Good Enough
  • Wonder of Women Summit Raises Support for Mental Health Awareness
  • Gift from Carol and Jim Collins Applies Precision Medicine to Alzheimer’s Research
  • Advancing Research and Education
  • In Memoriam
  • Game of Clones
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  • Is Treatment for Pain Race-based?
  • Molecular Analysis Identifies Key Differences in Lungs of Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
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  • A Heart for Philanthropy
  • Dr. Kelsey C. Martin Steps Down as Dean
  • UCLA Nurses Honored
  • Telehealth Is Here to Stay
  • What’s In That COVID-19 Vaccine?
  • Proportion of Black Physicians in U.S. Increased Minimally in 120 Years
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  • In Memoriam
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  • UCLA Honors Arline and Henry Gluck with Fiat Lux Award
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