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Penn Professor Honored with NIH Health Pioneer Award
Professor Sarah A. Tishkoff receives 2009 award
Did You Know…
that Penn geneticist Sarah A.Tishkoff has been awarded a 2009 National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award? She is one of 18 Pioneer Awardees honored by the NIH. Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University AssociateProfessor and a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor, withjoint appointments in the Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine andthe Department of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences. She worksprimarily in Africa, where she has compiled the world’s most extensiveDNA database, representing more than 7,000 Africans from more than 100 ethnicgroups.
The Pioneer Award provides $500,000 in funding each year for five years,totaling $2.5 million in support of a small number of investigators ofexceptional creativity who propose bold and highly innovative new researchapproaches that have the potential to produce a major impact on broad,important problems in biomedical and behavioral research. Penn President Amy Gutmann remarked:“Sarah Tishkoff’s groundbreaking research and her remarkablediscoveries that combine insights of genetics, biology, sociology andanthropology demonstrate how much universities can deepen our understanding ofthe human condition by integrating knowledge across disciplines.”
To learn more about Tishkoff and the NIH Pioneer Award please see: http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=1721
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