The Daniel Drake Medals are the highest honor awarded by the UC College of Medicine. The Drake Medal honors two alumni and two faculty for outstanding achievements in biomedical science as evidenced by major significant contributions to medical research or for a distinguished career as a clinician-teacher.

The 2019 winners included the UC MSTP Director, Gurjit (Neeru) Khurana Hershey, MD, PhD; and UC MSTP 1987 graduate, Stephan Grupp, MD, PhD!