Hedvig Hricak Was Awarded Luminary Award at PMWC25
Hedvig Hricak was recently honoured with the Luminary Award at the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2025.
Hedvig (Hedi) Hricak, MD, PhD, is the Chair of the Department of Radiology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), a position she has held since 1999.
“Dr Hricak was wonderful choice for luminary award.”- Razelle Kurzrock, Founding Director at Michels Rare Cancers Research Laboratories and Master of Ceremonies at PMWC 2025
Under her leadership, the department has become one of the world’s premier cancer imaging centers, recognized for excellence in both clinical care and research.
Dr. Hricak holds the Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair at MSK and serves as a professor at both the Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Weill Cornell Medical College.
Dr. Hricak was among the first to establish the clinical value of MRI in diagnosing prostate, kidney, and gynecological cancers.
She continues to lead groundbreaking research, particularly through her lab within the Molecular Pharmacology Program at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute.
Here, her team integrates imaging with genomic data to gain deeper insights into molecular and anatomical tumor characteristics. In addition to her research and clinical contributions, Dr. Hricak is deeply committed to advancing education and the global, evidence-based application of cancer imaging.
She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), where she was honored with the David Rall Medal for Distinguished Leadership.
Dr. Hricak has held various prominent roles, including serving on the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board of the National Academies, the Scientific Advisory Board of the National Cancer Institute, and the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
She is also currently a member of the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies.
For more information on PMWC 2025, click here.
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