2023 Dahod Awards – Dahod Assistant Professorship
We are pleased to announce the 2023 recipients of the Dahod Assistant Professorship, Mollie Barnard, ScD. In August 2008, Shamim Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, CAMED’87) and her husband Ashraf gave $10.5M to the School to establish the Shamim and Ashraf Dahod Breast Cancer Research Center, as well as these programs and endowments.
Mollie Barnard, ScD, assistant professor of medicine, joined the Section of Hematology/Oncology and the Slone Epidemiology Center in July 2022. Under the Dahod assistant professorship, she will expand on the epidemiologic breast cancer research she began while at Harvard University and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Aggressive breast cancer subtypes disproportionately affect Black women, contributing to racial disparities in breast cancer incidence and outcomes. This award will support Dr. Barnard’s efforts to molecularly-characterize breast cancers in the Black Women’s Health Study and will advance her goal of discovering pathways by which chronic inflammatory conditions influence the risk of breast tumor types. Results of her research may lead to a better understanding of reasons for the higher prevalence of aggressive breast cancer subtypes in U.S. Black women.