The 2019 Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award recipients are:
Robert Anderson, MD, PhD—University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Treating systemic diseases with very long fatty acids
Rosa Bacchetta, MD—Stanford University
Genetically modified T cells to treat autoimmune disorders
Gerald Dorn, MD—Washington University School of Medicine
Targeting mitochondria to treat Charcot Marie Tooth and other neurodegenerative disorders
Joachim Herz, MD—University of Texas Southwestern
Targeting chronic inflammatory diseases
Paul Hruz, MD, PhD—Washington University School of Medicine
Novel treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Peng Ji, MD, PhD—Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Identification of new therapeutics for blood cancers
V. Vinod Mootha, MD—University of Texas Southwestern
Precision medicine for age-associated vision loss
Dawn Wetzel, MD, PhD—University of Texas Southwestern
Developing novel, broad-based antiparasitics
T.C. Wu, MD, PhD—The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Augmenting universal immunity to combat cancer
Ellen Yeh, MD, PhD—Stanford University
Novel therapeutics to treat malaria