March 09, 2015
前MD安德森总裁门德尔松“创造历史”
BY隆达温德勒
John Mendelsohn, M.D.从1996-2011安德森总裁,近日在接受德克萨斯历史博物馆基金会"History-Making Texan Award." The annual award recognizes “living Texas legends whose contributions to the state and the nation have been truly historic and exceptional in scope and nature.”
Under Mendelsohn’s leadership, MD Anderson experienced a period of tremendous growth. The cancer center’s operating and research budgets increased by greater than four-fold, and the number of faculty and employees doubled. The institution regularly topped U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” list, and earned more competitive research grants from the National Cancer Institute than any other U.S. cancer center or university.
A few highlights from Mendelsohn’s nearly 15-year tenure as president include:
- Opening of the Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic, Faculty Center, T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower, Proton Therapy Center and George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Science Research Building
- 红色和查林麦库姆斯研究所癌症的早期检测和治疗的癌症预防和风险评估的邓肯家庭研究院的发展
- 学位授予程序的扩展,包括学士学位,并在八个专职医疗学科等级证书以及共同授予博士学位在得克萨斯大学健康科学中心的休斯敦大学生物医学科学
- 该机构的规模最大的一次募捐活动的启动,使得癌症病史:以变换癌症护理,达到了$ 1十亿选标记提前两年多,造成$ 1.2十亿新的目标的运动
- Creation of a worldwide network of more than 20 sister institutions and launch of new clinical programs bearing the MD Anderson name throughout the greater Houston area and beyond
在癌症研究的国际公认的领导者,门德尔松仍基于在该MD安德森教授为谢赫·哈利法·本·扎耶德·阿勒188bet体育网址纳哈扬研究所的个性化癌症治疗,它汇集了研究人员,临床医生和研究人员来自不同学科的裁缝治疗的联合主任患者的基因签名特定癌症。
门德尔松的研究重点放在如何188bet体育网址特技癌细胞增殖通过阻断某些细胞信号传导通路导致产生治疗结肠癌的批准由美国食品和药物管理局的药物在2004年和头颈部癌症于2006年。
在“历史性的德克萨斯奖”的获奖者前有丹顿·库利,医学博士,美国总统乔治·W·和劳拉·布什,沃尔特·克朗凯特和迈克尔主动脉夹层动脉瘤,医学博士