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Vincent K. Tuohy

Vincent K. Tuohy BS, PhD

Oncology, Immunology and Microbiology, Research and Clinical Research
Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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Dr. Vincent K. Tuohy, Ph.D. is the Mort and Iris November Distinguished Chair of Innovative Cancer Research, a member of the Staff in the Department of Immunology at the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, and a Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Tuohy hails from Brooklyn, NY where he received his Ph.D. in Pathology from SUNY Downstate Medical Center. Dr. Tuohy completed his postdoctoral studies in autoimmunity at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, MA.

As a Cleveland Clinic immunologist since 1989, Dr. Tuohy characterized several new autoimmune animal models for studying human diseases including sudden deafness, heart failure, interstitial cystitis, prostatitis, and ovarian failure. More recently, Dr. Tuohy developed a novel vaccine for preventing triple-negative breast cancer and another vaccine for preventing epithelial ovarian carcinoma. In recognition of his breast cancer vaccine studies, Dr. Tuohy received the F. Mason Sones 2010 Innovator of the Year Award from the Cleveland Clinic as well as the 2010 Excellence in Science Award from the Lerner Research Institute.
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