VIMM Member Updates:
The VCU School of Medicine recently honored VIMM members who have endowed professorship and chair positions.
The VCU School of Medicine recently honored faculty members who have endowed professorship and chair positions. They were formally invested and presented with medallions during an Investiture Dinner at Jefferson Hotel on September 27
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, 2018. Endowed professorships and chairs represent the highest academic honor a university can confer to a faculty member.
The following VIMM members were endowed on that presitigious occasion:
Paul B. Fisher, M.Ph., Ph.D., FNAI Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Oncology Research
Steven T. Grant, M.D. Shirley Carter and Sture Gordon Olsson Chair in Cancer Research
Devanand Sarkar, Ph.D., M.B.B.S. Harrison Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research
Xiang-Yang Wang, Ph.D. Mary Anderson Harrison Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research
Jolene J. Windle, Ph.D. Irene Shaw Grigg Distinguished Professorship in Genetics Research
