2023 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award - Holly A. Ingraham, PhD

2023 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
August 21, 2023 • 1:00pm

 

The UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program is pleased to announce the recipient of the
2023 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
Holly A. Ingraham, PhD

Please join us for an award celebration and reception honoring Dr. Ingraham and her outstanding contributions to faculty mentorship at UCSF

Award Celebration and Reception
Monday, August 21, 2023
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Rock Hall 102 Pottruck Auditorium-UCSF Mission Bay Campus
Zoom link will also be available to participate

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Dr. Ingraham began her scientific journey exploring the unseen world through her great grandfather’s 1890 Bausch and Lomb microscope. Dr. Ingraham joined the UCSF faculty in 1991, where her initial work uncovered how NR5A nuclear receptors regulate key facets of endocrinology and metabolism. Her recent dissection of sex differences in the brain and peripheral tissues has defined molecular pathways that control female physiology and behavior and has illuminated basic molecular processes controlling endocrine development and pathways that impact women’s health. Her group provided a mechanistic understanding of the preovulatory activity spike, underscoring the impact of estrogen in counteracting metabolic decline. This work was featured in the NYT Science Section (10/26/21). Other studies with her collaborator (and spouse), David Julius, have established sex differences in visceral pain responses highly relevant to gut disorders, such as IBS.

Dr. Ingraham received the EB Astwood Outstanding Basic Science Award and the Transatlantic Medal in Endocrinology. She is a fellow of the AAAS and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to mentoring lab members, she directs the UCSF IRACDA Program, an NIH-funded program promoting diversity in our nation’s biomedical research enterprise. The UCSF program cultivates a strong group of biomedical scientists to pursue independent academic careers and to enrich the collaborative relationship between UCSF and SFSU in research, training, and mentoring.

For additional information, please contact:

Mitchell D. Feldman, MD, Mphil
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Harris M. Fishbon Distinguished Professorship in Medicine
Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Mentoring

University of California, San Francisco
1545 Divisadero, Suite 316
San Francisco, CA 94143-0320

Faculty Mentoring Program Coordinator:

Irené Merry 415-502-0244