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2022 Cora Verhagen Award Recipient!

Congratulations to Chas Pfeifer, research trainee in the Apte Lab, on receiving the “2022 Cora Verhagen Award” for best poster or paper presented by a graduate student or post-doctoral fellow in an immunology-sponsored session at the ARVO annual meeting.

Both Chas and Dr. Apte will be attending the 2023 ARVO conference next year in New Orleans, where he will receive the award and plaque at the presentation ceremony.

The Cora Verhagen Award was instituted in 1995 to honor the memory and scientific contributions of our colleague Cora. It awards the best ocular immunology poster or paper presented by graduate students and post-doctoral fellows at the ARVO Annual Meeting

Andrew W. Taylor, Associate Dean for Research; Professor & Director of Research Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine