NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2024) — Dr. Sumit Gupta, a physician-scientist whose research focuses on vulnerable subpopulations of children with cancer, has been awarded the eighth annual Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children’s Health Research, Weill Cornell Medicine announced today.
The Drukier Prize honors an early-career pediatrician whose research promises to make significant contributions toward improving the health of children and adolescents. Dr. Gupta is an associate professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, both at the University of Toronto, and associate scientist and head of the Section of Leukemia and Lymphoma at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, Ontario. He is being recognized for his research using health data to answer important clinical and health policy questions affecting children living with cancer locally and globally.
Dr. Gupta’s most recent research includes studying the late effects of cancer therapy in adolescents and young adults, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, and designing and evaluating a program for the early identification of childhood cancers in Kenya and Cameroon, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).