ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Sarah J. Hill, MD, PhD is a physician scientist and independent investigator in the Department of Medical Oncology and Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Her lab is focused on understanding the mechanisms of BRCA1-linked breast and ovarian carcinogenesis and therapeutic sensitivity and resistance. She completed her AB at Harvard College, her PhD at Harvard University in the laboratory of Dr. David Livingston at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and her MD at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT HST program. She is also a Rhodes Scholar and completed an MSc in biochemistry at Oxford University. Upon graduation from the Harvard MD/PhD program, she trained in pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She was recruited to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to start her own independent laboratory immediately upon completion of her residency training. Simultaneously, and with the support of her PhD mentor, she won an NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (DP5).