JENNIFER PIETENPOL was honored with the Medical Research Advancement Award during the T.J. Martell Foundation Nashville Honors Gala. Pietenpol is the B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology and director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
The award is in recognition of Pietenpol’s career as a cancer researcher. She focuses on the p53 family of proteins and breast cancer, especially triple-negative breast cancer.
Pietenpol joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1994 and was named director of VICC in 2007. In addition, she has been named to the Institute of Medicine’s National Cancer Policy Forum and is a previous presidential appointee on the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Previously, Pietenpol has received the Burroughs Wellcome New Investigator Award, the Excellence in Teaching Award at Vanderbilt University and the Carleton College Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. She was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars, and is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, for work including advances in the understanding of signaling networks in breast and other cancers. She has authored or co-authored over 125 articles published in peer-reviewed scientific literature.
