Christina Gurnett, MD, PhD, and Fred Ssewamala, PhD, have been chosen by their academic peers to receive Washington University in St. Louis’ 2024 faculty achievement awards, Chancellor Andrew D. Martin announced.
Gurnett, the A. Ernest and Jane G. Stein Professor of Developmental Neurology at the School of Medicine, will receive the Carl and Gerty Cori Faculty Achievement Award.
Ssewamala, the William E. Gordon Distinguished Professor at the Brown School, will receive the Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Award.
The awards will be presented at the university’s annual Founders Day dinner Nov. 9.
“It is a true honor to present the Carl and Gerty Cori and Arthur Holly Compton Faculty Achievement Awards each year,” Martin said. “Both Compton and the Coris were brilliant researchers who made discoveries that changed their fields, but they did not believe that their roles in society could or should be contained by the boundaries of the university campus.
“Christina Gurnett and Fred Ssewamala have been selected by their faculty colleagues as representing that spirit: academic excellence combined with a dedication to public service. I join the Washington University community in congratulating them both.”