ASCP President Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, FASCP Named 2020 Fellow of Prestigious Sigma Xi Honor Society

ASCP President Gene P. Siegal, MD, PhD, FASCP, has been named a 2020 Fellow of Sigma Xi, the pre-eminent international honor society for science and engineering. In achieving this recognition, he joins the ranks of recent history’s most illustrious scientists and Nobel Prize laureates. The organization was founded in 1886 at Cornell University by a group of engineering students.

Dr. Siegal is being recognized for “his distinguished contributions as a physician scientist and for exemplary scholarship as a teacher, mentor, author, reviewer, and editor and as a leader in academic medicine,” according to the Sigmi Xi website.

He is the Robert W. Mowry Endowed Professor of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and executive vice-chair of Pathology at UAB Medicine, in Birmingham, Alabama. Since January 2018, he has also served as the interim chair of the Department of Genetics at UAB. He is an experimental and diagnostic pathologist whose research interest, for over four decades, has been focused on cancer biology. His clinical research interests have centered on studies of bone tumors and related conditions, a field in which he is a recognized world authority.

"This is a great honor, yet I have to share credit with ASCP as it has provided me with the opportunity to develop the leadership skills necessary to achieve this recognition,” he said.

“With the challenges facing science in general and Sigma Xi, in particular, it is critical to support this eminent society which has also been important to my success and to assure its continued growth into this next century," Dr. Siegal added.