About the Award
Beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year, the Teresa S. Hawley Scholar Award for academic excellence will be given annually to the GCATS-MATS student with the highest average grade in the program's four core anatomy courses.
The award is supported in part by licensing royalties received for the MSCV (murine stem cell virus) retroviral vectors1-3 that Robert and Teresa Hawley developed.
1. Hawley, R.G., Lieu, F.H.L., Fong, A.Z.C., and Hawley, T.S. Versatile retroviral vectors for potential use in gene therapy. Gene Ther. 1: 136-138, 1994. PMID: 7584069
2. Hawley, R.G., Fong, A.Z.C., Burns, B.F., and Hawley, T.S. Transplantable myeloproliferative disease induced in mice by an interleukin-6 retrovirus. J. Exp. Med. 176: 1149-1163, 1992. PMID: 1402659
3. Hawley, T.S., Telford, W.G., and Hawley, R.G. “Rainbow” reporters for multispectral marking and lineage analysis of hematopoietic stem cells. Stem Cells 19: 118-124, 2001. PMID: 11239166
Background
Teresa Hawley was the founding Director of the GW Flow Cytometry Core Facility, serving in this capacity from July 2004 to October 2015. Until her retirement in December 2025, she held various positions at the National Institutes of Health, most recently in the Center for Human Immunology, Inflammation, and Autoimmunity within the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Together with Robert Hawley, she edited the second, third, fourth and fifth editions of Flow Cytometry Protocols, Volumes 263, 699, 1678 and 2779 in the Methods in Molecular Biology series (Humana Press/Springer Nature).
Robert Hawley has been the Director of GCATS and MATS since July 2019. These programs were educational initiatives of his when he was Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology from July 2007 to July 2016.