The 2017 Boy Frame Award for Excellence in Clinical Research was presented to Dr. Andrew Arnold at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in Denver, CO. This annual award honors the memory of Dr. Frame, a renowned international expert in bone diseases, and the recipient also gives a featured lecture at the ASBMR national meeting. Dr. Arnold, Murray-Heilig Chair in Molecular Medicine and Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, CT, was recognized for his groundbreaking research on diseases of the parathyroid glands. Dr. Arnold’s lecture was entitled “Uncovering a Parathyroid Tumor Gene” and focused on his group’s discovery of cyclin D1, a molecular driver of parathyroid and other tumors including breast cancer, lymphoma, and myeloma.
