At the 10th Annual MARF meeting Gala Dinner on June 12th, V. Courtney Broaddus, M.D., Professor of Medicine at  the University of San Francisco and Chief of the Pulmonary Division and Critical Care Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, received a Pioneer Award for her achievements in the research field of mesothelioma and service to MARF.
In addition to her publications on asbestos- induced mechanisms of cell death in mesothelial cells, Courtney has  developed a novel spheroid cell culture system to study signaling pathways of apoptosis resistance in mesothelioma cells and …