Named Deanships, Directorships, and Professorships
Endowed positions have a personal and lasting impact.
Natalia Trayanova, Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Trayanova’s research centers around understanding the normal and pathological electrophysiological and electromechanical behavior of the heart. She is the Murray B. Sachs Professor.
Arturo Casadevall, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr. Casadevall’s groundbreaking work on infectious diseases is widely known. He has received several of the highest honors in medicine and health, and holds the Alfred and Jill Sommer Professorship and Chairmanship.
Dr. Chung, the inaugural Charles D. Miller Professor, joined the Hopkins faculty in the Department of Political Science in 2004, where she teaches courses in comparative politics and East Asian politics.
Professor Wang, the R. Clayton Emory Chair in Real Estate and Infrastructure, joined the Carey Business School in 2014 and leads the Edward St. John Real Estate Program.
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine
Ashani T. Weeraratna, Ph.D., is the E.V. McCollum Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, and co-leader of the Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Program at the Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Brothers HERMAN (left) and WALTER SAMUELSON (below) were Baltimore natives who both attended high school at Baltimore City College and graduated from the University of Maryland Law School. Herman Samuelson was cofounder of the Jewish Convalescent Home and served for many years as an officer of its board of directors. He practiced law briefly…
BARBARA B. RUBENSTEIN, who succumbed to breast cancer in 2001, was a charter member of the Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Advisory Council and a devoted friend of the center's director, Martin Abeloff, MD. A tireless advocate for translational research and the concept of rapidly directing knowledge gained in the laboratory…
JAMES B. MURPHY, Med 1909, was a pioneer in cancer research at the Rockefeller Institute in New York from 1910 until his death in 1950. Known as a natural leader, he achieved excellence in his own research even as he encouraged excellence in others. Chief members of the department he…
Eli Kennerly Marshall Jr. Professorship in Oncology
ELI KENNERLY MARSHALL JR., A&S 1911 (PhD), Med 1917, was head of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics for more than two decades and was considered one of the most renowned pharmacologists of his time. After earning his doctorate in chemistry, he joined the medical faculty while earning his…
Ian T. MacMillan Professorship in Clinical Pancreatic Cancer Research
A recipient of the Hawaii Award for Literature, the Elliott Cades Award for Literature, and numerous other prizes and distinctions, IAN T. MacMILLAN served as the fiction editor for the Pacific Journal of International Writing for many years. Mr. MacMillan was also a celebrated professor of English at the University of Hawaii,…
Everett & Marjorie Kovler Professorship in Pancreas Cancer Research
EVERETT KOVLER was a Chicago area businessman, president of the Jim Beam Bourbon Company. Before his retirement in the mid-1970s, Mr. Kovler was involved in cancer-fighting efforts, serving as president of the Midwest advisory board of the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Foundation in 1960. He later spearheaded the establishment of the…
Marion I. Knott Directorship and Professorship in Oncology
MARION I. KNOTT (pictured, seated with her husband, surrounded by their children) was the matriarch of one of Baltimore's most philanthropic families. With her late husband, Henry J. Knott, she provided significant support for the hospital and health system over the years. In recognition of her support, the medical campus west of…
R. DALE HUGHES began making regular trips from his home in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, for treatment at the Oncology Center in 1987. In gratitude for the care he received, he and his wife, FRANCES M. HUGHES, made the lead commitment to create this professorship to advance urological cancer research and…
As a six year old confined to his hospital bed because of cancer, KYLE HAYDOCK's favorite writer was Tom Clancy. Kyle's grandfather wrote a fan letter on Kyle's behalf to Mr. Clancy, and Mr. Clancy wrote back. The two visited, went to Disney World together (the photograph shows them at Disney…
