Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., Receives Two Major Awards
July 20, 2006
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has created a Physician-Scientist Early Career Award program to provide $150,000 over three years to promising physician-scientists in their early years as tenure-track faculty at academic medical centers. Among the first recipients of this award is Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., assistant professor of neurosurgery and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the brain tumor program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
HHMI named the first 13 awardees in late June. Many of them have already made impressive, original contributions to research in a variety of fields. The money must be used for direct research expenses, and the recipients' institutions must agree to let the young physician-scientists spend at least 70 percent of their time doing research.
In addition, the Hispanic Scholarship fund has selected Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa as a 2006 inductee to its Hall of Fame. He will be recognized at a September event in Washington, D.C.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has created a Physician-Scientist Early Career Award program to provide $150,000 over three years to promising physician-scientists in their early years as tenure-track faculty at academic medical centers. Among the first recipients of this award is Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D., assistant professor of neurosurgery and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the brain tumor program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.