Mayer Mitchell Award to be presented to cancer researcher

Santanu Dasgupta, Ph.D., recipient of the 2024

award, with Arlene Mitchell.

The recipient of the 2025 Mayer Mitchell Award for Excellence in Cancer Research will be announced on Monday, Nov. 3, at 4:30 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.