Please join us in congratulating Orlando D. Schärer,PhD and Markus Seeliger, PhD, as recipients of the 2016 Stony Brook SOM Faculty Award for excellence.

Stony Brook School of Medicine has a long-standing tradition of recognizing faculty excellence. This year’s candidates capture and reflect Stony Brook’s FAR BEYOND strategy and ethos – a driven, imaginative community, relentlessly pursuing excellence and tomorrow’s big ideas – doing far beyond the expected.

This year's selection committees had before them a large number of qualified nominees – a terrific sign of a robust organization with talented and committed faculty.  The decision for each award was a very difficult one, and all of the candidates should feel honored to have been nominated by their colleagues.

So it is with great pleasure that we announce two Pharmacology faculty as recipients of the 2016 Stony Brook SOM Faculty Awards:

Excellence in Senior Research Award – is presented to Orlando D. Schärer, PhD, a Professor, jointly, in the Departments of Pharmacological Sciences and Chemistry, and an internationally recognized researcher in the field of DNA damage, DNA repair, and cancer.  In addition to his impressive research accomplishments, Dr. Schärer has served as an organizer for varied national and international scientific meetings and a reviewer for numerous NIH study sections and other funding agencies.  His department chair has described him as “one of our star investigators” . . . and noted that he has had “many roles in service at the institution, and has been and excellent and committed educator to our . . . students . . .”


Excellence in Early Career Research Award – This year’s recipient is Markus Seeliger, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences.  His department chair noted that “on top of [his] notable research success, Dr. Seeliger has become an exceptional and extraordinary member of the academic community, starting new courses for both MSTP and the Laufer Center, being deeply engaged in science communication courses at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science (AACCS), and being the first PhD participant in the Leaders in Medical Education program here.”