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UC Physiology Alumnus Scott Pomeroy Receives the Daniel Drake Medal
05/20/2007
UCÕs college of medicine today awarded UC physiology alumnus Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD the Daniel Drake Medal. The college's highest honor given to distinguished living faculty and alumni, the Drake Medal is named in honor of the college's founder.
 Pomeroy, currently the Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, has built one of the foremost laboratories in the world focused on the biology of embryonic brain tumors. His group was among the first to use genomic methods to understand the molecular basis of tumorigenesis and to identify molecular markers of outcomes that can be used for risk stratification in clinical trials.
A native of Cincinnati, Pomeroy graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and received his medical degree at UC. Spending his summer months in the laboratory of Michael Behbehani, PhD investigating the mechanisms of pain inhibition, Pomeroy was inspired to pursue a PhD in physiology.
Pomeroy reflects, "My years of graduate study in physiology were happy and productive. [Daniel Kline had] built a rigorous and collegial faculty who were highly influential on me. I give credit and thanks to David Baldwin, Bob Banks, Gus Eckstein, Gunter and Ingrid Grupp, Bob Highsmith, Lenny Kleinman, Rosalind Lowenhaupt and Rick PaulÑand of course my mentor, Mike Behbehani, who guided me through daily interactions and critical commentary during seminars and presentations. Fred Samaha served on my thesis committee and was influential in guiding me to choose a career in child neurology."
Trained in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston and in child neurology at Washington University in St. Louis, Pomeroy worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Dale Purves at Washington University and, in 1989, won the Child Neurology Society Young Investigator Award. In 1991, he returned to Children's Hospital Boston, where he established and then directed the neuro-oncology program and cofounded the Children's Hospital/Dana Farber Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic. He became the chairman of the department of neurology and neurologist-in-chief of Children's Hospital Boston in 2005.
Robert Smith, MD is also a recipient of the 2007 Daniel Drake Medal.
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