The ASCI is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award: Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, PhD
@danafarber
More at:
Dr. Ebert will give the 2021 Korsmeyer Lecture as part of the 2021 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting
@jointmeeting
.
@the_asci
honors Howard Chang
@HowardYChang
with the 2024 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award for his contributions to genome science through his invention of mapping technologies and his discoveries of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs).
We are pleased to announce the election of 100 new Active and International members for 2024. See the full list here:
These members will be officially inducted on April 5, as part of the 2024 AAP/ASCI/APSA
@JointMeeting
!
The ASCI is pleased to recognize the election of Elizabeth McNally, MD, PhD, as the 2022-2027 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Her term begins March 1, 2022.
for details + incoming Board members
@NUFeinbergMed
@emmcnally
The ASCI is pleased to recognize the recipient of the 2021 Donald Seldin~Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research: Rajan Jain, MD
@PennMedicine
More at
From JCI Editor
@emmcnally
:
New JCI submission category!
Recognizing the need to disseminate high-impact findings quickly, JCI has launched Research Letters: focused reports of original research presented in a single-figure format.
More info here:
Welcome to Dr. Vijay G. Sankaran
@BostonChildrens
@DanaFarber
who joins the 2022-2023 ASCI Council. He'll serve as Councilor, 2022-2025. Dr. Sankaran was elected to membership in 2018:
The ASCI is proud to announce our 2024 Early-Career Awardees!
Click here for the complete list of awardees:
YPSA:
E-Gen:
Congratulations to our awardees and to the institutions they represent!
The ASCI congratulates the 80 physician-scientists elected to the membership in 2019 and who will be officially inducted April 5 at the ASCI Dinner & New Member Induction Ceremony, part of the 2019 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting
#JointMeeting2019
We're excited to call for applications for the ASCI's new
#Postbac
Program.
The program provides an intensive, two-year mentored lab research experience for UiMS students interested in the physician-scientist career path. Applications due Jan 5, 2024.
Physician-scientist development: a new category for supporting all stages of the physician-scientist pipeline:
An
#Editorial
by Kathleen L. Collins
@umichmedicine
JCI Insight's Editor-in-Chief.
Peter Tontonoz selected to receive 2022 ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award:
@the_asci
has recognized Peter Tontonoz
@UCLA
with Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award, highlighting his foundational discoveries in lipid metabolism & dedication to excellence in mentorship.
Congratulations to the following electees to the 2021 ASCI Council:
Vice President:
Benjamin D. Humphreys, MD, PhD
@HumphreysLab
Councilors:
Julie Anne Bastarache, MD
@JulesBass6
Goutham Narla, MD, PhD
@gouthamnarla
Elizabeth K. Speliotes, MD, PhD, MPH
Tomorrow: ASCI Scientific Sessions
@leonard_zon
“The niche for stem cells and cancer: fishing for pathways that drive self-renewal"
November 10, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@HumphreysLab
Free & open to all.
Register:
Congratulations to 2022-23 ASCI President Sohail Tavazoie, MD, PhD
@SohailTavazoie
for his election to the National Academy of Medicine!
All 24 ASCI members elected to the NAM for 2022:
Thank you to Dr. Hossein Ardehali (
@ArdehaliHossein
) for his volunteer contributions to the ASCI as its 2021-2022 President. His outgoing message:
He continues his service on the 2022-2023 Council as Immediate Past President.
Announcing ASCI Scientific Sessions: a monthly spotlight on distinguished investigators and their contributions to biomedicine.
William G. Kaelin, Jr., MD: “von Hippel-Lindau Disease: A Bedside to Bench to Bedside Story”
Sept. 15, 1-2 pm E
Register at
Congratulations to former ASCI Presidents on election to the National Academy of Medicine!
- W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD
@KimrynRathmell
(2019-20 President)
- Paul S. Mischel, MD
@mischellab
(2010-11 President)
All 24 ASCI members elected to NAM for 2022:
The ASCI congratulates the recipients of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: William G. Kaelin Jr. (ASCI, 1997), Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza (ASCI, 1995). Read more:
Closing out an extraordinary day for
#JointMeeting21
:
Recognizing the 80 members elected to ASCI in 2020:
Official induction of 80 members elected for this year:
Congratulations to all!
The ASCI is pleased to recognize the 2021 ASCI / Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine recipients: Warren J. Leonard, MD
@nih_nhlbi
and John J. O’Shea, MD
@NIH_NIAMS
They'll give the 2021 Harrington Prize Lecture at the AAP/ASCI/APSA
@jointmeeting
Next in the monthly ASCI Scientific Sessions:
Christine E. Seidman, MD
@harvardmed
“Genetic Cardiomyopathies — How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?”
Dec 15, 1-2 pm Eastern
Moderated by Hossein Ardehali
@ArdehaliHossein
Free and open to all - register:
Early-Career Physician-Scientists!
Nominations are open for the ASCI:
E-Gen Awards (recognition for post-MD, pre-faculty physician-scientists)
&
YPSA (recognition for early-faculty physician-scientists)
Deadline: Oct. 31
More info:
Early-Career Physician-Scientists!
Nominations now open for:
Emerging-Generation Awards (recognition for post-MD, pre-faculty physician-scientists) & Young Physician-Scientist Awards (recognition for early-faculty physician-scientists)
Deadline Nov. 21
Kicking off the 2022-2023 ASCI Scientific Sessions:
Helen H. Hobbs, MD
@UTSWNews
"Nature, Nurture, and Disorders of Lipid Excess"
September 16, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@AnnaGreka
Free & open to all.
Register:
Next in the 2022-2023 ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@JimAllisonPhD
"Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New insights into therapeutic mechanisms"
October 25, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@SohailTavazoie
Free & open to all. Register:
Join us next week to honor Steven E. Mansoor, MD, PhD, the ASCI's 2023 Seldin~Smith Awardee in recognition of his contributions to understanding the basic science of ion channel structure, function, and gating.
August 8, 1–1:30 pm Eastern:
ASCI member Janos Peti-Peterdi
@KeckMedUSC
in
@JCI_insight
: Serial intravital imaging captures dynamic and functional endothelial remodeling with single-cell resolution:
#Nephrology
If you're attending the AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting starting tomorrow through Saturday:
#JointMeeting21
@DrDeidraCrews
is the featured speaker from the 2020 ASCI inductee class - and
@kirkcampbell
is featured from the 2021 inductee class
The 2018 ASCI, AAP, and
@A_P_S_A
joint meeting in Chicago begins tomorrow! We look forward to sharing meeting highlights with attendees and virtual attendees using
#JointMeeting2018
!
Gaps between college and starting an MD-PhD program are adding years to physician-scientist training time:
A
#Perspective
by ASCI member Lawrence F. Brass
@PennMedicine
in
@JCI_insight
ASCI Scientific Session Reminder:
Christine E. Seidman, MD
@harvardmed
“Genetic Cardiomyopathies — How Do You Mend a Broken Heart?”
Dec 15, 1-2 pm Eastern
Moderated by Hossein Ardehali
@ArdehaliHossein
Free and open to all - register:
Early-Career Physician-Scientists!
Nomination deadline extended:
ASCI E-Gen Awards (recognition for post-MD, pre-faculty physician-scientists)
& YPSA (recognition for early-faculty physician-scientists)
New deadline: November 6
More info:
Robert Lefkowitz
@the_asci
and AAP talks about the old
@NIH
in the era of the Yellow Beret, circumstances of medical training that led to multiple Nobel prizes and what is different today.
.
@the_asci
congratulates
@NicoleCalakos
@DukeMedSchool
for the 2023 ASCI/Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award.
She is recognized for her contributions to the understanding of brain plasticity & discovery of a signaling defect shared by several causes of dystonia.
Congratulations
@ElizabetsCrouch
(2023 YPSA),
@FelixDietlein
(2023),
@NeilVasan
(2022), and colleagues on this remarkable acheivement!
Nominations for ASCI's early-career awards (YPSA + E-Gen) open through October 31:
Early-stage investigators proposed innovative high-impact research ideas for the
@NIHDirector
’s New Innovator Award. See the projects the awardees will pursue:
#NIHHighRisk
The ASCI's new mid-career physician-scientist awards were set in motion by 2020-21 President Lorraine Ware
@VUMCLung
and brought to fruition by the ASCI's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, Chair Sophie Paczesny
@sophpacz
and Vice Chair Sherita Golden
@GoldenSherita
:
I’m thrilled to highlight the inaugural recipients of the ASCI’s new mid-career physician-scientist awards:
➡️ Marian W. Ropes, MD, Award: Wendy S. Garrett, MD, PhD
@theGarrettLab
➡️ Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award: Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD
@ufhealth
🧵
Coming up shortly at
#JointMeeting21
:
- Andrew A. Lane, MD, PhD
@lane_andy
, ASCI's 2020 Seldin~Smith Awardee
- Rajan Jain, MD, ASCI's 2021 Seldin~Smith Awardee
- Kirk Campbell, MD
@kirkcampbell
, featured 2021 new ASCI member presentation
2024 Seldin~Smith Award nomination deadline extended to Nov. 17!
This award honors an early-career physician-scientist who has demonstrated exceptional creativity and accomplishments in biomedical research, and provides a $30,000 grant to the recipient.
Next in the 2022-2023 ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@leonard_zon
“The niche for stem cells and cancer:
fishing for pathways that drive self-renewal"
November 10, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@HumphreysLab
Free & open to all. Register:
ASCI Scientific Session Reminder:
James E. Crowe, Jr., MD
@croweje
"Human monoclonal antibodies for infectious diseases"
Jan 18, 1-2:00 pm EST
Moderated by Lorraine B. Ware, MD
Free and open to all. Register:
Up next in the ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@javid_lab
"Tuberculosis virulence: lost and gained in (mis)translation"
November 17, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by Kyu Y. Rhee, MD, PhD
@WCM_ID
Free & open to all. Register:
We're pleased to feature
@DanielJDrucker
“Evolving mechanisms & clinical indications for incretin-based therapies”: next in the monthly ASCI Scientific Sessions
Oct 20, 1-2 pm E
Free - register:
Abstract submission reminder!
2022 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting, April 8-10, Chicago
Deadline: Dec 3, 11:59 pm E
Great presentation & mentoring opportunity for student & trainee
@A_P_S_A
members, others on the physician-scientist career path
➡️ Submit:
Next in the 2022-2023 ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@IntMedAbel
“Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiometabolic Disease"
December 16, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@GoldenSherita
Free & open to all.
Register:
Are you a physician-scientist 3-6 years into your first faculty appointment?
2024 Seldin~Smith Award nominations open until Oct. 31. Award provides a $30,000 honorarium + lectureship at the 2025 Joint Meeting:
Past recipients:
Next in the ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@BelkaidLab
“Microbiome control of host immunity"
January 13, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@SohailTavazoie
Free & open to all.
Register:
Congratulations to the following ASCI members on election to
@theNAMedicine
!
- Ida Sim, MD, PhD
@Idasim
- David Tuveson, MD, PhD
@CSHL
- Omaida C. Velazquez, MD
@OmaidaVelazquez
See all ASCI members elected this year:
100th Anniversary
#Viewpoint
by ASCI members Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein
@UTSWNews
:
How the JCI’s most-cited paper sparked the field of lipoprotein research:
Tomorrow:
ASCI Scientific Sessions
@JimAllisonPhD
"Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy:
New insights into therapeutic mechanisms"
October 25, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by
@SohailTavazoie
Free & open to all. Register:
ASCI member
@SeanM_Wu
@StanfordMed
in
@jclinicalinvest
: Visualizing the cardiac conduction system:
#Cover
Image: intact wild-type heart (gray) from a mouse injected with mCntn2-800 (gold), illuminating entire cardiac conduction system in vivo.
#Cardiology
Reminder: ASCI Scientific Sessions:
Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD
@bcmhouston
"Regional vulnerability in adult neurodegenerative disorders: Lessons from Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 1"
Feb 18, 1-2 pm EST
Moderated by
@AnnaGreka
Free and open to all.
Register:
Reminder: Next in the ASCI Scientific Sessions:
@javid_lab
"Tuberculosis virulence: lost and gained in (mis)translation"
November 17, 1-2pm ET
Moderated by Kyu Y. Rhee, MD, PhD
@WCM_ID
Free & open to all. Register:
RAND PAUL: Knowing it's a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement where you said the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan?
FAUCI: I've never lied before Congress & I don't retract that statement ... you don't know what you're talking about