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Harold Rusch Awards - WMAA
Two awards are made to recognize the breadth of Harold Rusch's vision and accomplishments. His leadership at University of Wisconsin Medical School resulted in the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center. The awards are given to faculty members who have made seminal contributions to translational research and the understanding of disease, especially neoplastic disease.
 Paul M. Sondel, M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Research Award
Paul Sondel received his undergraduate degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a medical degree from Harvard and a Ph.D in Genetics from the UW, working in research positions at both universities. He completed an internship in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Hospitals and a residency at the UW Department of Pediatrics. He affiliated with the Departments of Pediatrics, Human Oncology and Genetics at the University of Wisconsin and is now the Reed and Carolee Walker Professor of Pediatric Oncology. He serves as the Vice Chair for research in the Department of Pediatrics and the Associate Director of Translational Research at the UW Paul P. Carbone Cancer Center. Dr. Sondel’s research centers on the immune system and the beneficial impact it can have on treating cancer.
 Richard A. Proctor, M.D.
Basic Research Award
Richard Proctor earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and served in the U.S. Army at the Institute of Infectious Disease in Frederick, Maryland. He also completed an internship in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a residency at Georgetown University and a fellowship in infectious disease at UW-Madison before being appointed in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology in 1978. He is currently a full professor. Dr. Proctor’s research interests include working with bacterial endotoxins, septic shock and bacterial adhesion. His work has been published extensively throughout his career.
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