Drs. Karen Harnett and Neil Ganem Honored as 2018 BUSM Educators of the Year
Karen Harnett, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and Neil J. Ganem, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Section of Hematology and Medical Oncology are among the nine recipients of 2018 BUSM Educator of the Year honors. Faculty were nominated for awards in each category by medical students and Division of Graduate Medical Sciences students.
Dr. Harnett, a BUSM Pharmacology Ph.D. program graduate, was named Educator of the Year in Pre-Clinical Medical Sciences. She joined the Department of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics in 2013 as Pharmacology educator and joined the Disease and Therapy (DRx) leadership team in 2015. She directs the Dental Pharmacology could for se ond-year dental students (DMDII) and first-year Advanced Standing dental students (ASI) at BU’s Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Ganem, Principal Investigator and Director of the Laboratory of Cancer Cell Biology, is one of two recipients along with Dr. Darrell Kotton of the Educator of the Year in Graduate Medical Sciences, Dissertation Advisors award. Neil’s research investigates the causes and consequences of aneuploidy and chromosome instability in human cancer, aims to define tumor suppression mechanisms that limit proliferation of aneuploid cells, and also to identify the common genetic adaptions made by cancer cells to overcome these growth barriers. He currently mentors one Ph.D. graduate student and three M.D./Ph.D. graduate students in the NIGMS supported Program in Biomolecular Pharmacology at Boston University, a BU Cell, Molecular and Genetics program undergraduate student, two postdoctoral researchers and a laboratory technician.
Congratulations to Karen and Neil on their excellent teaching skills, their commitment to their students, and on a job well done.