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MacArthur Research Service Award recipients Dennis Kasper, center, and Michael Gimbrone, second from right, are joined by, from left, Barbara Bierer, Thomas Kupper and Cynthia Morton.
Michael Gimbrone, MD, and Dennis Kasper, MD, were honored with this year's MacArthur Research Service Awards for generously volunteering their time and efforts to the members of the BWH research community. "They are truly giants of academic medicine and champions of Brigham and Women's Hospital," said BRI Director Thomas Kupper, MD, before presenting the awards at the BRI Research Celebration last week. Gimbrone, chair of BWH Pathology and the Elise T. Friedman Professor of Pathology at Harvard, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He has served in many institutional leadership positions, including HMS academic dean for Partners HealthCare Systems and chair of the Partners Committee on Senior Appointments. He was associate director of research at BWH and co-chaired the BWH Research Council from 1996 to 2004. "His scientific accomplishments in vascular biology range from seminal to merely extraordinary, and he is known widely as both a mentor and a sage," Kupper said. Kasper, director of the Channing Laboratory and the William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine at Harvard, is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the scientific director of the New England Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases. In addition to having served as interim chair of the Department of Medicine, Kasper was associate director of Research and co-chair of the Research Council from 1996 to 2004. "His scientific accomplishments in the field of infectious diseases are truly exceptional and paradigm-shifting," Kupper said.