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Tippi MacKenzie, MD, and Suzanne Noble, MD, PhD, (image not available) were the first recipients of the Perstein award for outstanding full-time, junior women faculty.

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The Irene Holmes Perstein Endowment Fund
03.31.08
In 2007, the School of Medicine invited nominations for the Irene Perstein Award for outstanding junior women clinician scientists. Eligible candidates are women at the assistant professor rank seen as developing high-caliber independent research programs in clinical or translational science. This year, the award carried a $175k cash amount for each recipient.

The inaugural award recipients were:

  • Tippi MacKenzie, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Pediatric Surgery and the Fetal Treatment Center; and
  • Suzanne Noble, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases.

"I am so honored to receive this award in support of women in medicine," Dr. MacKenzie stated. "This award will allow me to expand my laboratory and develop into a more mature independent investigator. My ultimate goal is to contribute to our understanding of immunology and fetal interventions and this award is crucial for furthering my research efforts."

Dr. Noble will be studying molecular mechanisms of virulence mechanisms of Candida albicans, a fungus that causes life-threatening infections in patients with immune deficiencies. She said that "receiving the Irene Perstein Award has been an incredible boon to my fledgling career, as it will afford me tremendous freedom in choosing optimal experimental strategies. "In this era of decreased NIH funding, the availability of private grants such as the Perstein award can make a critical difference in the careers of young scientists."

Irene Holmes Perstein, an Orinda resident who died in 1995, left in her will a bequest "to establish and/or add to the Irene Holmes Perstein endowment fund to produce annual awards to one or more outstanding full-time, junior women faculty members of the School of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco."

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