Spring 2025
By Kathy Clute
Photography by Bryce Vickmark
The Dana-Farber Campaign raised vital funds to encourage early career investigators to continue their promising research. The Lubin Family Foundation Scholar Award exemplifies the Institute’s commitment to retaining the brightest physician-scientists in academic medicine as they launch their research careers.
Since 2022, Lubin Scholars have been tackling tough questions ranging from genetic vulnerabilities in glioblastoma to how to attack advanced cancers through translational genomics. They are guided and supported by Lubin Scholar Mentors who are senior leaders in the relevant scientific field. In addition, each Lubin Scholar receives four years of financial support for their work.
Many studies have shown that physician-scientists leave academic research early in their careers for reasons including financial limitations and more opportunities in the private sector. Overcoming these formidable barriers to retention is critical to the future of Dana-Farber’s research enterprise.
“Lubin Scholars are all on their way to becoming next-generation leaders in their fields,” said Nobel Laureate William G. Kaelin Jr., MD, the program’s scientific director and the Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine. “They can benefit from the same kind of transformative mentoring I got from the late Dr. David Livingston as they face the many choices and decisions that will shape their careers.”