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The Burroughs Welcome Fund announced in May that Joshua Shulman, MD, PhD, and Duane Wesemann, MD, PhD, both of BWH, are recipients of the 2011 Career Awards for Medical Scientists. The prestigious honor, which recognizes 10 recipients annually, is a five-year, $700,000 award for physician-scientists to bridge advanced postdoctoral training and the early years of faculty service.
“We are extremely proud that two of our researchers received this prestigious award. Drs Shulman and Weseman were among the five nominees selected to apply for the Burroughs Wellcome awards through the HMS foundation funds process,” said Barbara Bierer, MD, senior vice president of Research.
Shulman, an associate neurologist in BWH’s Department of Neurology, is also an instructor in neurology at Harvard Medical School. The grant will fund his continued research in the area of Parkinson’s disease genetics. Shulman is also a previous recipient of the 2009 Robert Katzman Clinical Research Training Fellowship, awarded by the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the Alzheimer’s Association.
Wesemann is an associate physician in the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy and is also an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research interests are in the area of B cell biology, and the grant money will fund a research project focusing on extramedullary B cell development. Wesemann also received the 2011 American Association of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology/CSL Behring Young Investigator Award in Primary Immune Deficiency.