Dr. Maria Trojanowska Accepts an Offer
to Become a Member of the Arthritis, Connective Tissue
and Skin Study Section of the NIH
Dr. Toni Scarpa, Director of the Center for Scientific
Review (NIH), announced March 29th that Maria Trojanowska,
Ph.D., Professor in the Division of Rheumatology and
Immunology, has accepted an invitation to serve as a
member of the Arthritis, Connective Tissue and Skin
Study Section.
Study section members are selected on the basis of
demonstrated competence and achievement as well as mature
judgment and objectivity.
Dr. Trojanowska has published 62 articles in peer-reviewed
journals including the "Journal of Biological Chemistry,"
"Arthritis & Rheumatism," the "Journal
of Hepatology," and the "Journal of Immunology."
She is currently Principal Investigator on two NIH R01s
and an R21. She also leads projects on a P20 (NIAMS)
and a P01 (NCI), and she also has one of three projects
in the NIAMS-funded Multidisciplinary Clinical Research
Center (P50).
She has demonstrated her commitment to scientific
education by serving as a mentor on the Department of
Pharmacology Training Grant as well as serving as Co-Director
of the Training Grant in inflammatory and fibrosing
diseases (T32) with Dr. Gary Gilkeson in Rheumatology
and Immunology, as well as mentoring numerous post-doctoral
fellows and graduate students.
Dr. Trojanowska came to MUSC as a post-doctoral fellow
in 1981 in the Department of Biochemistry. She joined
the Department of Medicine in 1986 as an Instructor.
She was awarded tenure in 2000 and promoted to the rank
of Professor in 2003.
She is a friend of the Scleroderma Foundation and,
in 2002, we funded some of her initial scleroderma research.
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