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May 10, 2025, 08:01
Valsamo (Elsa) Anagnostou: Honored to Receive the Alex Grass Endowed Professorship in Oncology
Valsamo (Elsa) Anagnostou, Alex Grass Professor of Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“I am deeply honored to receive the Alex Grass endowed professorship in Oncology.
I see the Alex Grass professorship not only as a personal milestone but also as a tribute to the collective efforts of my mentors, collaborators, outstanding trainees, and family, who have shaped my journey.
To my parents, Kostas and Roula, thank you for establishing the foundation for continuous learning. To my brother Georgios Anagnostou thank you for your belief in me.
I am grateful for my early mentors Dina Tiniakos and Kostas Syrigos at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon for introducing me to laboratory research and thoracic oncology. Through interactions with David Rimm at Yale School of Medicine, I learned the importance of independent scientific exploration and weighing fundamental questions based on their clinical caliber.
To Noushin Niknafs seema agarwal Jill Phallen Kellie N Smith, thank you for your friendship, creativity, and commitment to cancer research that inspired me every day.
I had the great fortune to learn from world-class experts in the fields of medical oncology, cancer immunology, genetics, and epigenetics. I am thankful to Ross Donehower, for sharing his wisdom, Drew Pardoll for his ongoing support and infectious enthusiasm for scientific discovery and stephen baylin, for always seizing opportunities to teach me how to interpret complex data based on cancer hallmarks.
To my research mentor, Victor Velculescu, thank you for the gift of mentorship. Here’s a few lessons I learned. Science is a conversation; which I experienced through countless daily discussions about experiments where science unfolded right before our eyes. Science happens when the most counterintuitive finding arises and requires a prepared mind to interpret what lies before you; I have experienced this repeatedly throughout our interactions, and it has remained true in my independent scientific journey.
To Julie Brahmer, the most deeply committed mentor to the advancement of her mentees that I have met. Julie taught me that strength and kindness, excellence and humility, when combined, are qualities of a great leader and that leadership is most powerful when it lifts others.
To my trainees, you have continuously challenged me to stay alert and reminded me every day why I am so committed to lifelong learning. I consider this chair a responsibility to you, whom I am committed to mentoring. I aspire to be as generous with mentorship and opportunity as others have been with me.
Taxiarchis Botsis, Georgios, Nephele, your love forms the foundation upon which all this stands. Thank you for your love and for teaching me more about perspective than any lab experiment ever could.
Grateful to the Alex Grass family, whose generosity made this chair a reality and to Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for creating an environment of clinical and research excellence.”
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