Pasarow Award

The Robert J. And Claire Pasarow Foundation Medical Research Awards were awarded annually for distinguished accomplishment in three vital areas of investigation: neuropsychiatry, cardiovascular disease, and cancer research. The program ran from 1987 to 2013. Each area of research is allocated $50,000 to award to its winners.

The Pasarow Foundation was created in 1987 by Mr. and Mrs. Pasarow of Beverly Hills, California to stimulate medical and scientific research. Robert Pasarow was the founder and former President/CEO/Chairman of the Board of CHB Foods, Inc. The Pasarows established the Claire and Robert J. Pasarow Cancer Laboratory at the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute at the University of Southern California as well as the Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at the University of California Los Angeles. Robert J. Pasarow, now deceased, was the founding President and Chairman of the Foundation and Claire Pasarow, also deceased, was the Chief Financial Officer.

The members of the board of directors are:

The principal criterion for nomination is evidence of extraordinary accomplishment in medical science.

Nominators provide a one-page letter of intent stating the rationale for the nomination and a copy of the nominee's curriculum vitae and bibliography in two-page NIH format. Applications will be reviewed by the Board of Directors in consultation with various medical scholars.

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