PROVIDENCE – Jennifer A. Sanders, was honored with the 2016 Bruce M. Selya Award for Excellence in Research at Rhode Island Hospital’s 24th Annual Hospital Research Symposium late in October, the hospital reported in a statement.
She received the award from Judge Bruce M. Selya, who was chair of the Lifespan board from Lifespan’s inception in 1994 until 1999.
Instituting the award in 1999 to honor Selya, Lifespan recognizes his “steadfast commitment to academic medicine and his keen insight concerning the importance of academic programs to quality health care at Lifespan.”
Sanders, whose research interests include normal and abnormal cellular growth in the liver, is a member the diabetes and endocrinology team at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, where Dr. Phyllis Dennery, the pediatrician-in-chief, nominated Sanders, who earned her Ph.D. in molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry from Brown University. Sanders, whose current research is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, is co-director of the pilot projects core for the Rhode Island Hospital COBRE Center for Cancer Research Development.
“Throughout her research career, [she] has demonstrated exceptional creativity, insight and ability. Her publication record includes numerous papers to which she made important contributions and, more importantly, work behind which she was the driving force,” wrote Dennery in her nomination letter. “In the past several years, she has become well known to senior liver biology scientists across the [United States] and abroad.”
Sanders, who completed her postdoctoral training in gastroenterology at Rhode Island Hospital, is also an assistant professor of pediatrics, pathology and laboratory medicine at Brown’s Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
