| February 1,
2001
Society for Investigative Pathology
Honors Penn AIDS/HIV Researcher
Robert W. Doms, Chairman of Microbiology, Cited for
'Meritorious Research'
The American Society for
Investigative Pathology has announced it will bestow
its most prestigious award for young research scientists
on Robert W. Doms, MD, PhD, chairman of the Department
of Microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine.
The society's Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Award honors
"meritorious research in experimental pathology" by
a scientist who is less than 44 years old.
Doms, who is 41, is director of pathogenesis at Penn's
interdisciplinary Center for AIDS Research and an Associate
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the
medical school. His team of scientists have made significant
discoveries in the field of AIDS research. Under his
leadership, the Penn researchers were able to establish
that AIDS can develop beyond the earliest stages of
HIV infection only in the presence of a second set of
cell receptor molecules known as cofactors.
A member of the American Society for Clinical Research,
Doms has published 70 research papers in the past eight
years, in peer-review journals that include Nature and
Cell. He holds the Burroughs Wellcome Award for Translational
Research, and the Stanley N. Cohen Biomedical Research
Award, which is one of the highest honors of Penn's
School of Medicine.
In 1999, he was one of four scientist to win the Elizabeth
Glaser Scientist Award, the only award devoted exclusively
to research in pediatric medicine. Doms holds an MD
and PhD in cell biology from Yale University, where
he worked as a post-doctoral fellow. He served his residency
at the National Institutes of Health before coming to
Penn in 1992 as an assistant professor in pathology
and laboratory medicine.
He will receive the Society's award during an April
2 reception at the organization's annual meeting in
Orlando, Fla.
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