Eveline Shue

Pittsburgh, October 15, 2005 -- Eveline Shue, second-year University of Pittsburgh medical student working in the Molecular Biology Core Laboratory, has won the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) Lucien J. Rubenstein Award for her project “Characterization of the Role of Plasmalemmal Vesicle Associated Protein 1 (PV-1) in Brain Tumor Angiogenesis.”

The Rubenstein Award is a national award presented annually to the best summer research project by a medical student in the field in neuro-oncology funded by the ABTA.

Medical student summer fellowships through the ABTA are intended to plant the seeds of neuro-oncology interest in bright, talented medical students. Students work in a brain tumor research laboratory over the summer, gaining exposure to bench research and the neuro-oncology community. Shue's fellowship was awarded through the Emily Dorfman Foundation for Children.

Eleanor Carson-Walter, PhD, director of the lab, and Kevin A Walter, MD, served as mentors for Shue.