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39 T M C ยป P U L S E | N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 8 DO YOU HAVE TMC PHOTOS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH PULSE? SUBMIT HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGES TO: news@tmc.edu 13 14 12 15 9 11 10 9 | CHERYL WALKER, PH.D., director of the Center for Precision Environmental Health at Baylor and professor of molecular and cellular biology, will receive the Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research from the Endocrine Society at their annual meeting in 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 | NICHOLAS MITSIADES, M.D., associate professor of medicine-hematology and oncol- ogy at Baylor and co-leader of the Nuclear Receptor Program at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, along with a team at Baylor, has been awarded $6.3 million by the National Cancer Institute to develop tools to better understand biological causes behind racial and ethnic health disparities in prostate and breast cancers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 | Philanthropists LESTER AND SUE SMITH attended The Legacy of Motown gala, which raised more than $83 million for TEXAS CHILDREN'S CANCER CENTER AND LEGACY TOWER. At the gala, Texas Children's President and CEO Mark A. Wallace announced that the new tower will be named The Lester & Sue Smith Legacy Tower in honor of the couple, who donated $50 million. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 | Rice University bioscientist NATASHA KIRIENKO, PH.D., won a new class of grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences called an R35. The five-year grant for nearly $2 million will support eorts by Kirienko and her team to study a pathway in mitochondria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 | MARK KUNIK, M.D., chief of the Behavioral Health & Implementation Program at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Houston; professor of psychiatry research at Baylor; and director of the South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, received the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians Psychiatric Excellence Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 | SARAH CANDLER, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Baylor and the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Houston, was elected to the board of directors of the Texas Chapter of the American College of Physicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 | HARRIS HEALTH SYSTEM'S BEN TAUB HOSPITAL celebrated the delivery of its 150,000th baby on September 23, 2018. Genesis Michell Bonilla, who weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces, is the daughter of Ana Garay and Jose Antonio Bonilla.