Maha Hussain Receives PCF Lifetime Achievement Award

Maha Hussain, MD, FACP, FASCO, Deputy Director of the Lurie Cancer Center and Genevieve E. Teuton Professor of Medicine, has been honored by the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) with the first-ever PCF Women in Science Lifetime Achievement Award. She received the award and gave an honorary lecture during PCF's 32nd Annual Scientific Retreat in Carlsbad, California.

“Please join me in congratulating our Deputy Director on this well-deserved recognition of her remarkable career and the far-reaching impact of her prostate cancer research, said Lurie Cancer Center Director, Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, Director of the Lurie Cancer Center. “Dr. Hussain's clinical research and scientific leadership have resulted in multiple FDA approvals and helped establish Lurie Cancer Center and Northwestern Medicine as leaders in prostate cancer research and treatment, nationally and internationally.”

PCF’s annual Scientific Retreat is the foremost scientific conference in the world on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer. “For decades, Dr. Hussain’s scientific brilliance, inspired leadership, and extraordinary mentorship have transformed the treatment and care of men facing the most devastating forms of prostate cancer,” said Gina Carithers, PCF’s president and CEO. “Dr. Hussain’s unwavering dedication to her patients has driven breakthroughs that are extending and improving lives.

“I am inspired and honored to receive this award,” said Dr. Hussain. “It has been a great privilege to work alongside extraordinary colleagues, patients, families, and partners like PCF, whose vision and investment in discovery and therapeutic innovation mirror my own. Together, our work is paying off—prostate cancer diagnostics and treatments are evolving at a tremendous pace, and I am excited about current advances and what the next generation of discoveries will bring.”