The Renaissance School of Medicine, in conjunction with the Office of the Vice Dean for Research, offers competitive awards in support of research areas targeted by recent and ongoing philanthropic support. The TRO Program (Targeted Research Opportunities) enables the development of collaborative research initiatives.
Congratulations to Dr. Christina Lee, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology Oncology at Stony Brook Medicine, recipient, The Catacosinos Cancer Translational Researcher Award for her application titled “Immune Aging in Adolescent and Young Adults with Cancer.”
The Catacosinos Cancer Translational Researcher Award is intended to advance research in cancer.
The Catacosinos family, by whom the fellowship was established, originally provided the Department of Computer Science with an endowment in 1978. The family’s support has had a lasting impact on the University. Beyond the fellowship, two additional endowed funds established by the Catacosinos family have supported cancer research and strategic initiatives by the President.
Dr. Lee is a hematologist and medical oncologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of hematologic malignancies, with clinical expertise and a research focus in lymphoma. She received her M.D. degree from the University of North Carolina and completed Internal Medicine residency training at New York University and Hematology & Medical Oncology fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is the recipient of a Young Investigator Award in Mantle Cell Lymphoma from the Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and a Lymphoma Research Foundation Scholar grant. As part of the multidisciplinary Hematologic Malignancies team at Stony Brook Cancer Center, Dr. Lee strives to provide personalized and compassionate care to her patients.
Dr. Lee and team will be presenting preliminary data at the December ASH (American Society of Hematology) conference.
