Two high-achieving WCM-Q alumni win prestigious awards

Two high-achieving WCM-Q alumni win prestigious awards

Doha: Two medical doctors who trained at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) and now work at elite healthcare institutions in the US have won prestigious awards for their work in research and mentorship. Breast cancer specialist Dr. Nour Abuhadra, who earned her MD degree and graduated with distinction from WCM-Q in 2015, won the 2023 Conquer Cancer Career Development Award presented by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Abuhadra is now at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, renowned as one of the world’s leading cancer treatment centers, where she is co-director of the Rare Breast Cancer Program, which she established. She also holds the positions of assistant attending physician in the center’s Breast Medicine Service, and co-section head of the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Clinical Research Program. Dr. Abuhadra has a special interest in rare breast cancer subtypes, with a particular focus on metaplastic breast cancers - a rare and aggressive form which is very difficult to treat. Speaking about the award, Dr. Abuhadra said: “I am thrilled that the Conquer Cancer Foundation recognized our proposal to attempt to better understand mechanisms of resistant in metaplastic breast cancer as a severely unmet need. I hope that this