Galveston County Daily News, July 8, 2008 Lisa A. Elferink has been named to the Edna Seinsheimer Levin endowed professorship in cancer studies at UTMB. She is an associate professor in the department of neuroscience and cell biology. Dr. William C. Levin, president emeritus of UTMB, and his children established an endowment in 1988 to stimulate cancer research and to honor his wife and their mother, Edna Seinsheimer Levin. She died after a lengthy fight with the disease. The award rotates every three years among each of UTMB's four schools. Elferink received her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Adelaide, Australia, in 1987. She is recognized nationally and internationally for her research in cMet signaling and is principal investigator on two grants from the National Institutes of Health.