Gowda receives 2017 Young Investigator Award

Dr. Chandrika Gowda, left, is seen with her mentor, Dr. Sinisa Dovat. Dr. Dovat received the 2018 Basic Science Master Career Mentor Award from Penn State College of Medicine's Office of Faculty and Professional Development.

It’s been fewer than four years since Dr. Chandrika Gowda completed her fellowship with Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, but she already has been recognized as one of the nation’s top young medical researchers.

Now an assistant professor of pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, Dr. Gowda is a recipient of the prestigious 2017 Young Investigator Award from The American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO), an annual award that recognizes excellence in research in the field.

Dr. Gowda credits her fellowship experience for helping her evolve into one of the country’s leading young researchers. When she began her fellowship in 2010, she recalled, she had no research background. But a year later, when she started her work under mentor Dr. Sinisa Dovat — himself a 2001 recipient of the Young Investor Award — an entirely new world opened up. Dovat’s lab studies pediatric cancer and is funded by Four Diamonds.

Learn more about Dr. Gowda’s work in this Penn State Medicine article.

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