We're so very excited that this year we will be able to have our Philanthropy event, and I'm sure that our future recipients will be just as excited.
Not all the details have been cleared...but, of course, there will be a super lunch.
SAVE THE DATE:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22
Plainview Jewish Center
Plainview, NY
June Stelboum and Sharon Wallach
Philanthropy Vice Presidents
Each year MWI gives an award to a researcher at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Our donation goes to a woman in AWSM, (Advancing Women in Science and Medicine,) an organization of women scientists at Feinstein. Its purpose is to enhance the career opportunities and recognize women in science.
Through the years we have been able to meet our recipients and hear about the research they have pursued. We have admired their enthusiasm and passion for the work they are doing. Much of their effors have focused on women's issues.
This year our Researcher-in-Training Award was given to Dr. Cristina Paraschievescu. She studies the role of the tumor microenvironment in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. She says that our award has helped her attend two important conferences in 2021. She told us that, "As a young researcher, attendance at these conferences was essential to my training as a scientist."
Unfortunately, due to Covid, we have not been able to meet Dr. Parachievescu. However, we are hopeful that possibly in the spring we will be able to invite her, and other members of AWSM, to come and speak to us.
We at MWI are very proud of our role in supporting AWSM.
Carol Brier & Suni Fay
Liaisons to Feinstein
Recipients of MWI's grants to Hofstra Medical School for student summer internships, with June Stelboum and Lori Schonfeld.
June Stelboum and Sharon Wallach Vice Presidents, Philanthropy
