2016 Recipient of the Howard and Martha Holley Research Prize in Rheumatology
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Established as the Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology Research Award in 1978 with a gift from Dr. and Mrs. Holley, this honor was renamed The Howard and Martha Holley Research Prize in Rheumatology in 1988. This prize is given to recognize outstanding investigators for their clinical or basic research in clinical immunology and rheumatology. Recipients of The Howard and Martha Holley Research Prize in Rheumatology 1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 2012 2015 |
Dr. Tsokos gave the Holley lecture on February 10, 2016 at noon at the UAB Medical Grand Rounds. The title of his lecture was: "Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Novel Basic and Clinical Concepts". Dr. Tsokos is the 2016 Recipient of the Howard and Martha Holley Research Prize in Rheumatology
Dr. George C. Tsokos, MD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief, Rheumatology Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He has served various leadership positions including President of the Clinical Immunology Society and as member or chair of multiple federal study sections and editorial boards of scientific journals. Currently he is the editor-in-chief of Clinical Immunology, the official journal of FOCIS. He holds a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health and has received many prestigious awards including the Hench, Kirkland, Howley, Evelyn Hess awards and the Distinguished Basic Investigator Award from the Amer. College of Rheumatology and more recently the Lupus Insight Award. Dr. Tsokos’ laboratory has opened and led the field of molecular abnormalities on immune cells in patients with SLE and identified previously unknown pathways which have served as the basis for novel treatments which are currently in various phases of development.