July 6, 2006
Physician Scientist Early Career Award for Martin
Dr. David A. Martin, acting instructor of medicine and senior fellow, has been granted a 2006 Physician Scientist Early Career Award by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
He is one of 13 physicians nationwide to receive the awards, offered for the first time this year and intended to further careers in basic, translational, and applied biomedical research. The award provides $150,000 over three years for direct research costs.
Martin works in the lab of Rheumatology Division Head Keith Elkon in the Departments of Medicine and Immunology. He studies pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus, and is investigating the processing of DNA by cells of the immune system.
The Physician Scientist Early Career Award is limited to alumni of the institute’s Research Scholars and Research Training Fellowship for Medical Students programs.
Martin, a graduate of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, was an HHMI-NIH research scholar in 1995-1997. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke University and a fellowship in rheumatology at the University of California, San Francisco.
HHMI received nearly 50 applications for these first awards.
