Gimbrone Accepts Four Awards on Behalf of BWH Vascular Biology
Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., MD, chairman of Pathology and director of the Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology, this month received the Glorney-Raisbeck Award and Lectureship from the New York Academy of Medicine. The award is endowed by the Corlette Glorney Foundation and presented annually to a clinician or basic scientist for outstanding contributions to the field of cardiovascular disease.
This was one of four awards Gimbrone has received this year. He also was recipient of the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, presented to him in April in Saudi Arabia; the Louis and Artur Lucian Award for Research in Circulatory Diseases from McGill University, received in May; and the Okamoto Award in Vascular Disease Research from the Japan Vascular Research Foundation, presented in October in Japan. All of these awards cited Gimbrone’s seminal contributions to understanding the role of the vascular endothelium—the cellular lining of the cardiovascular system, in atherosclerosis and inflammation. They also recognized his personal leadership in establishing vascular biology as a field, nationally and internationally.
“I am truly honored and humbled by these awards which really reflect the wonderful environment the Brigham has provided for my work and that of all my colleagues, in vascular biology, over the years. They are a testament to BWH’s pre-eminent role in basic and translational biomedical sciences,” Gimbrone said.