This year, SPR is pleased to honor Dr. David Reiss, Vivian Gill Distinguished Research Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Medicine, and Director of the Center for Family Research at the George Washington University Medical Center. (preventionresearch.org)
He has authored 37 texts about literacy teaching including: the NCTE Promising Research Award for «You Got ta BE the Book» and the Russell Awards for Distinguished Research for both «Reading Don't Fix No Chevys» and for Reading Unbound: Promoting the Power of Pleasure Reading. (edutopia.org)
He received the 2014 William B. Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Tumor Immunology and the 2017 Warren Alpert Foundation award for this work, which led to development of the PD - 1 pathway blockade for cancer immunotherapy. (sciencemag.org)