Deborah Morrison, Ph.D., Laboratory Chief, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling, Center for Cancer Research
By Ashley DeVine, Staff Writer
Deborah Morrison, Ph.D., laboratory chief, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling, Center for Cancer Research (CCR), received an NIH Director’s Award in June “for major breakthroughs in elucidating the mechanisms of Ras/Raf signaling that will be critical for diagnosis and treatment of disease,” according to the NIH Director’s Awards Ceremony brochure.
She was nominated by Ira Daar, Ph.D., senior investigator, Developmental Signal Transduction Section, Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling, CCR.
Daar’s nomination stated that over the past few years, “Morrison has produced a series of papers reporting major advancements in our understanding of the Ras/Raf signaling pathway, which is one of the critical pathways underlying human cancer biology and certain developmental disorders.”
Morrison was honored at the NIH Director’s Awards Ceremony in June.