Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr, MD, recently received the Bristol-Myers Squibb Award For Distinguished Achievement in Cardiovascular Research. Dr Gimbrone is widely regarded as a pioneer in vascular biology, particularly regarding the function of endothelial cells in health and disease. He is the Elsie T. Friedman Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Chair of the Department of Pathology and Director of the Center of Excellence in Vascular Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Dr Gimbrone graduated magna cum laude (Honors Thesis) with his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1970. He then served an internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research fellowship at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston. He held the position of Staff Associate at the National Cancer Institute and completed a residency in pathology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. There, he began the Vascular Pathophysiology Research Laboratory, which later became the Vascular Research Division of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
He has served on numerous editorial boards and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academy of Sciences. His many awards received include the Established Investigatorship Award and the 1993 Basic Research Prize from the American Heart Association, the MERIT Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (1994), and the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine (together with Dr Judah Folkman) for distinguished lifetime achievement in the field of Vascular Biology (1999).