Biologist David Sabatini of MBBP client Whitehead Institute will receive the University of Pittsburgh’s 2017 Dickson Prize in Medicine. The Dickson Prize in Medicine is awarded annually to a leading American investigator who is engaged in innovative, paradigm-shifting biomedical research.
Sabatini discovered mTOR, a key cellular regulatory metabolic pathway. In addition to being a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, he teaches biology at MIT and is a senior associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. He is also a member of the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
The award will be presented to Sabatini in October at the University of Pittsburgh’s Science 2017 event. More information can be found on the University’s Dickson Prize in Medicine page.
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