Gelareh Zadeh wins a Canada Gairdner Momentum Award

She is one of two winners of the inaugural Momentum Awards, created by the Gairdner Foundation to recognize mid-career researchers who have made significant discoveries with the potential to improve human health.

“It is such an honour to receive this award from the Gairdner Foundation,” said Zadeh, a clinician and senior scientist at University Health Network and a professor of surgery at the 91�Թ�'s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

“I attribute my success in large part to the highly skilled and integrated research and clinical teams that I work with at University Health Network. My team’s achievements in translational brain research simply would not be possible without the exceptional researchers, trainees, neuro-oncologists, surgical teams and patients that we work with every day,” Zadeh said.

Zadeh was recognized for her contributions to the understanding of brain tumours. Her work has led to a new molecular classification of one of the most common types of brain tumours – meningiomas – an advance that could produce more effective treatments, models for predicting patient outcomes and biomarkers of treatment response.

Zadeh holds the Dan Family Chair in the division of neurosurgery at 91�Թ�’s department of surgery and is the first woman in Canada to be named neurosurgery chair. The head of neurosurgery at Toronto Western Hospital and co-director of the Krembil Brain Institute, she leads a 30-member research team at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.

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