Mouse Model Of Cerebral Malaria - Burroughs Wellcome Fund Selects Einstein's Dr. Mahalia Desruisseaux For A 2007 Career Award For Medical Scientists

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Article Date: 12 Jul 2007 - 1:00 PDT

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Mahalia Desruisseaux, M.D., a research fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is the recipient of a five-year Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Career Award for Medical Scientists. The award, which was developed to increase the number of physician-scientists conducting biomedical research, aims to support young investigators in their transition to becoming faculty members and independent investigators.

Funding from the award will support Dr. Desruisseaux's investigations of a mouse model of cerebral malaria, conducted in the laboratories of Dr. Herbert Tanowitz, professor of pathology and of medicine, and Dr. David Spray, professor of neuroscience and of medicine at Einstein.

The award is the most recent of several honors that Dr. Desruisseaux has received since completing her residency in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital in 2003. That same year, she received the Dr. George M. Jaffin Award for Research and Scholarly Activity from North Shore. She then began an infectious diseases fellowship at Einstein and its University Hospital, Montefiore Medical Center. In 2005, she received the Colin L. Powell Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Disease Research from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Education Research Foundation of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, and in 2006, she received a Department of Medicine Annual Research Symposium Award.

Dr. Desruisseaux, who is a native of Haiti, completed her residency in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital after receiving her bachelor's degree from Queens College and her medical degree from Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She is a resident of Bayside, in Queens.

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