Amy B. Heimberger

Amy B. Heimberger
Amy B. Heimberger
	Heimberger in 2007
Member of the Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; September 15, 2021 Serving with Nilofer S. Azad, Luis Alberto Diaz, Jr., Christopher R. Friese, Ashani Weeraratna and Karen Winkfield
President	Joe Biden
Director	Norman Sharpless
Alma mater	University of Missouri; Washington University School of Medicine
Awards	PECASE (2007)
	Scientific career
Fields	Neurosurgery
Institutions	University of Texas; Northwestern University

Amy B. Heimberger is an American neurosurgeon and physician-scientist. She is the Jean Malnati Miller Professor of Neurological Surgery, vice-chair for research in the department of neurological Surgery at Feinberg School of Medicine and scientific director of The Malnati Brain Tumor Institute at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.[1]

Heimberger completed a B.A. at University of Missouri in 1989. She earned a M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine in 1995. She finished her internship in surgery (1996) and residency in neurosurgery (1970) at Duke University Hospital.[2] She won a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her research on central nervous system immune biology while working at the University of Texas.[3]

In September 2021, Heimberger was appointed by U.S. president Joe Biden to the National Cancer Institute's National Cancer Advisory.[1]

References

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "President Biden Appoints Members to National Cancer Advisory Board". The White House. 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
"Faculty Profile: Amy B. Heimberger". Feinberg School of Medicine. Archived from the original on 2021-09-22. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Twelve Early-Career NIH Researchers Receive Prestigious Award". National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2015-09-29. Retrieved 2021-09-22.

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