Ruth Etzioni
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center biostatistician and ASA Fellow Ruth Etzioni was named the inaugural recipient of the Rosalie and Harold Rea Brown Endowed Chair.
The new endowed chair will help advance Etzioni’s population science research, which focuses on cancer screening and early detection, particularly in breast and prostate cancers.
Etzioni has been with Fred Hutchinson for 30 years, and this leadership gift will allow her to continue her work, “but with a little more breathing room,” noted Diane Mapes of Fred Hutchinson.
Emery N. Brown
The Society for Neuroscience recently awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Emery N. Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience at MIT.
Brown, a member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, as well as the Warren M. Zapol Professor at Harvard Medical School, is a neuroscientist, statistician, and practicing anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. His research has produced principled and efficient new methods for decoding patterns of neural and brain network activity and advanced neuroscientific understanding of how anesthetics affect the brain, which can improve patient care.
“Dr. Brown’s seminal scientific contributions to neural signal processing and the theory of anesthetic mechanisms, together with his service as an educator and a physician, make him highly deserving of the 2020 Swartz Prize,” Society for Neuroscience President Barry Everitt said in a press release announcing the award. “Dr. Brown has demonstrated an unusually broad knowledge of neuroscience, a deep understanding of theoretical and computational tools, and an uncanny ability to find explanatory simplicity lurking beneath complicated observational phenomena.”
The prize, which includes $30,000, was awarded during the Society for Neuroscience’s Awards Announcement Week, October 26–29.
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