Mayer Mitchell Award to be presented to cancer researcher

Arlene Mitchell, center, presents the 2021 award to
Jennifer Scalici, M.D. 

The recipient of the 2022 Mayer Mitchell Award for Excellence in Cancer Research will be announced on Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. at the USA Health Mitchell Cancer Institute.

The $10,000 award is presented annually to a promising scientist at the Mitchell Cancer Institute upon the recommendation of a faculty committee. The award was established in 2009 by University of South Alabama trustee Arlene Mitchell in memory of her late husband, Mayer Mitchell, a Mobile businessman, longtime USA trustee and formative figure in the establishment of the MCI.

The 2021 recipient of the award was Jennifer Scalici, M.D., chief of gynecologic oncology service at the MCI and a professor of gynecologic oncology at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine. Scalici directs the gynecologic oncology research lab at the MCI.