Edith Yuan, a medical student in the Attenello Lab, is the winner of the 2020
Lucien Rubinstein Award for her research on glioblastoma resistance and a novel lncRNA.
The Lucien Rubinstein Award is given to the Medical Student Summer Fellowship recipient who scores the highest marks from a panel of expert scientific reviewers on her project’s final progress report. Recipients of this award receive $1,000 in recognition of their outstanding work. The award is named in honor of the late Lucien J. Rubinstein, MD, who was a pioneer in neuropathology at the University of Virginia and a world-renowned brain tumor researcher.