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2017 Dickson Prize Goes to Sabatini
Prize is Pitt School of Medicine’s most prestigious annual award
David Sabatini, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2017 Dickson Prize in Medicine from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Sabatini is best known for discovering a key cellular regulatory metabolic pathway known as mTOR, or mechanistic target of rapamycin, and for his subsequent research revealing several roles that individual proteins in this pathway play in common diseases such as cancer and diabetes and in aging. His research has identified fundamental molecular mechanisms in human biology and elucidated the molecular basis of human disease.
Dr. Sabatini is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. He is also an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Sabatini’s honors include being named a W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar and a Pew Scholar. His numerous awards include the 2009 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research, 2013 Feodor Lynen Award from Nature, and the 2014 National Academy of Sciences Award in Molecular Biology. In 2015, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In May 2017, he was awarded the Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Sabatini will deliver the Dickson Prize in Medicine Lecture on Friday, October 20, as a plenary session at Science 2017, the University of Pittsburgh’s annual celebration of science and technology. To learn more, visit www.science2017.pitt.edu.
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Pitt’s annual science festival highlights the strengths of the University and the region in science, engineering, medicine, and computation, as well as the collective effect of research and advances in these fields on local economic development. Plans for Science 2017, scheduled for October 18–20, are taking shape. To learn more, visit www.science2017.pitt.edu.
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