Awards and Accolades August 2023

Lorraine Boakye, MD, an assistant professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, and Ade Osinubi, MD, a resident in Emergency Medicine, have been named to Black Health Connect's 2023 40 Under 40 list. The list highlights those "driving change within the health care industry" and seeks to recognize honorees for their leadership, innovation, advocacy, community service, and more. Each applicant was asked to list their greatest achievement: Boakye named receiving the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society Courage Award, and Osinubi listed the production of her documentary, "Black Motherhood Through the Lens."

Two Penn Medicine investigators are among 18 early-career postdoctoral researchers who have received funding awards from the Life Sciences Research Foundation to investigate questions surrounding human health and disease. Faith Karanja, PhD, a Cell and Developmental Biology postdoctoral research fellow, has been awarded for a proposal titled "Exploring the Role of Hopx as a Conserved Regulator of Quiescence in Adult Stem Cells." Additionally, Jeffrey Rosa, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Psychiatry, and who was selected as a Simons Foundation Awardee, has been awarded for a proposal titled, "Identifying the molecular basis of sleep maturation in Drosophila melanogaster."

Katalin Karikó, PhD, an adjunct professor of Neurosurgery and mRNA research trailblazer, has been named in the Bahl-Dole Coalition's "Faces of American Innovation" report. The recognition honors people who make breakthroughs in science that lead to commercial products and tangible changes in the world. Karikó will be commended in a ceremony in September.