[Criteria for Distinguished Alumni Award Nominations]

[List of Distinguished Alumni Award Winners]
      
   

Suzanne A. W. Fuqua, Ph.D. (1982) Dr. Suzanne Fuqua is widely recognized for her pioneering work on hormonal resistance in breast cancer, identifying variant estrogen receptors in breast cancer tissue and linking these mutations to hormone resistance and breast cancer progression by demonstrating their consequences in altering estrogen binding and cell responsiveness in model systems. Dr. Fuqua has also made seminal observations of the role of heat shock proteins in breast cancer progression. She has correlated heat shock protein expression with breast cancer outcome and functional consequences on breast cancer cell proliferation and invasiveness, findings that suggest potential new therapeutic directions by adding appropriate modulators of chemotherapy to enhance effectiveness of treatment. Dr. Fuqua has a Bachelors of Science degree in biology and a Masters of Science in microbiology, both from the University of Houston. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in virology, 1982, with Robert Naso, Ph.D., as her advisor. She was an early project investigator in the department of tumor virology at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute and from there went to San Antonio, Texas where she was a senior research associate at Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, then a postdoctoral fellow in the department of medicine/medical oncology at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Following an academic path of research instructor, assistant professor, and associate professor, at UT-San Antonio, Dr. Fuqua moved to Baylor College of Medicine in 1999 where she continues today, a full professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Breast Center, Departments of Medicine, and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Houston, Texas. Dr. Fuqua has published over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals, and has authored over 30 books/chapters. She has served on numerous federal study sections and site visits, and is on the editorial boards of Cancer Research, Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics and the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Dr. Fuqua is currently project director for a SPORE grant in breast cancer from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI); Principle Investigator for an R01 Grant from NIH/NCI, Principle Investigator for a T32 Grant, from NIH/NCI; Project Director of a P01 Grant from NIH/NCI; Principle Investigator for Grant from the Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center; Principle Investigator on a Grant from the Susan G. Komen Foundation; and Co-Principle Investigator on a Grant from the United States Department of Defense.

GSBS Distinguished Alumni Award Winners

1981   Robert E. Marc
1975/Ph.D./Neuroscience/Harry Sperling
Professor
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah School of Medicine
Moran Eye Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84132
801-585-6500
robert.marc@hsc.utah.edu

1996   Larry H. Thompson
1969/Ph.D./Radiation Biology/Herman Suit
Team Leader, DNA Repair Team
Biology and Biotechnology Research Program
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94551-0808
925-455-9473
thompson14@llnl.gov

1997   Aravinda Chakravarti
1979/Ph.D./Human and Molecular Genetics/Masatoshi Nei
Professor and Director (Nathans-McKusick Institute of Genetic Medicine)
Institute of Genetic Medicine
600 N. Wolfe Street, 2-109 Jefferson Street Building
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287
410-502-7525
aravinda@jhmi.edu

1998   Hugo A. Barrera-Saldana
1982/Ph.D./Molecular Biology/Grady Saunders
Professor and Chairman, Department of Biochemistry
University of Nuevo Leon-Monterrey
P.O. Box 3-4125
C.P. 64000 Monterrey N.L. Mexico
52-8-329-4173
hbarrera@uanl.mx

2000   Michael E. McClure
1970/Ph.D./Biochemistry/L.S. Hnilica
Chief, Organs and Systems Toxicology
Extramural Research
NIEHS, NIH
P.O. Box 12233, MD EC-23
Research Triangle Park, NC
301-496-6515
mcclure@niehs.nih.gov

2001   Deborah Anderson
1976/Ph.D./Immunology/Bar Levy
Director/Associate Professor
Director, Fearing Research Laboratory
Harvard Medical School, Obstetrics and Gynecology
75 Francis Street, Thorn Building 217
Boston, MA 02115
617-278-0069
djanderson@bics.bwh.harvard.edu

2002   Larry Deaven
1969/Ph.D./Cell Biology/T. Elton Stubblefield
Life Sciences Division
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, NM 87545
505-667-3912
ldeaven@lanl.gov

2003    Eugene W. Gerner
1974/Ph.D./Biopysics/Ronald Humphrey
Professor
Arizona Cancer Center
University of Arizona Health Science Center
1515 N. Campbell Street
Tucson, AZ 85724
520-626-2197
egerner@azcc.arizona.edu

2004   Ronald S. Duman
1984/Ph.D./Pharmacology/Sam Enna
Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology
Director, Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities
Yale University School of Medicine
34 Park Street
New Haven, CT 06508
ronald.duman@yale.edu

2005   Bhudatt Paliwal
1973/Ph.D./Medical Physics/Peter Almond
Professor of Medical Physics and Human Oncology
University of Wisconsin
716 Langdon Street
Madison, WI 53706
paliwal@humonc.wisc.edu

2006   John J. Kopchick
1980/Ph.D./Virology/Ralph Arlinghaus
Milton and Lawrence H. Goll
   Eminent Scholar Professorship in
   Molecular and Cellular Biology
Ohio University
Edison Biotechnology Institute
Athens, Ohio 45701-2979
kopchick@ohio.edu

2007   Suzanne A. W. Fuqua
1982/Ph.D./Virology/Robert Naso
Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Breast Center
Departments of Medicine and Molecular & Cellulcar Biology
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-1671
sfuqua@bcm.tmc.edu

Criteria for Distinguished Alumni Award Nominations

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award a candidate must be a GSBS Alumnus or Alumna and must NOT be a member of the Alumni Association Steering Committee at the time of the decision.

Criteria

Distinguished Alumni will be chosen on the basis of strength in several areas such as:

1. National recognition
2. Leadership in field
3. Grant support
4. Publication Record
5. Patents
6. Serving the community and the GSBS
7. Clinical responsibilities