Julie Palmer Named Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Professor
Congratulations to Julie Palmer, ScD, MPH, Co-Director of the BU-BMC Cancer Center, Associate Director of the Slone Epidemiology Center and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, for being named as the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Professor, which was established in 2002 by the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation. Read more: http://www.bumc.bu.edu/busm/2019/04/18/julie-palmer-named-karin-grunebaum-cancer-research-professor/
About the Award
In June 1958, at age 39, Karin Grunebaum, the mother of 4 and a loving wife, suddenly passed away from cancer only three months after giving birth to her youngest child. Because her pregnancy had masked the symptoms of cancer, the disease had already metastasized throughout her entire body by the time the cancer was diagnosed a month after giving birth. There was no way to know what type of cancer she had. The primary site of the malignancy remained unknown. After Karin passed away, her husband, Fritz Grunebaum, established the Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation as a lasting memory to his beloved wife so that other families could avoid such a tragedy by helping to identify and treat all tumors regardless of location.
The Karin Grunebaum Chair in Cancer Research was established in 2002 at the Boston University School of Medicine. In April 2019, Boston University’s Board of Trustees approved Professor Julie Palmer, Sc.D. as the second Karin Grunebaum Professor in Cancer Research. In addition, Dr. Palmer serves on the Foundation’s Board of Trustees. This professorship represents the first in the field of Cancer Research at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Source: Karin Grunebaum Cancer Research Foundation. Retrieved 4/25/19 from https://www.grunebaumfoundation.org/