Carolinas Via Research Recogntion Day Program

Speaker

Yusuf A. Hannun, M.D. is the Joel Strum Kenny Professor in Cancer Research and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. He is also the Director of The Kavita and Lalit Bahl Center for Metabolomics and Imaging and the Director Emeritus of the Stony Brook Cancer Center Dr. Hannun is an internationally known researcher in the area of bioactive sphingolipids, lipid metabolism, protein kinases, and signal transduction. His novel contributions to science have opened up a new field of investigation centered on the study of bioactive sphingolipids and their roles in cancer biology, inflammation, and cancer therapeutics. Dr. Hannun has published more than 650 scientific manuscripts, edited seven books and authored 7 patents. His H index is currently 159 with more than 97,000 citations to his work. Dr. Hannun has received numerous scientific and professional honors, including election as a fellow to the AAAS, election to the AAP and ASCI, the Malinckrodt Scholarship, and the Pew Scholarship in Biomedical Sciences. He received the South Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence in Research in 2006, and he gave the Feodor Lynen Lecture of the German Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) in 2007. In 2010, he received the Avanti Award for excellence in Lipid Research from the ASBMB (American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) and in 2012 he received the Kuwait Prize. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from his Alma Mater, the American University of Beirut in May 2014. In 2015, he received The European Lipid Science Award, and in 2019 he was named a SUNY Distinguished Professor. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eicosanoid Research Foundation in 2019, and in 2022 he was elected a fellow of the ASBMB. He currently holds multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is also the principal investigator on a 25-year program project grant from the National Cancer Institute.

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2026 Research Recognition Day