UVM Larner College of Medicine names inaugural holder of early-career professorship

Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD, a physician-scientist in the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine, was invested in January as the inaugural holder of the Early Career Green and Gold Professor of Medicine. The professorship is designed to provide funds to strengthen the research program of the most promising assistant professors in their first five years of their faculty appointment and to recognize the excellence and potential of the recipient’s research program.