The Committee received seven applications for the spring Research Career Enhancement Award (RCEA), and received five in the fall, for a total of 12, slightly fewer than the previous year. The Committee received a total of three applications for the Teacher Career Enhancement Award (TCEA), one in the spring and two in the fall. This is similar to the number of applications submitted last year. This award continues to attract the fewest applicants. The Committee is discussing options on how to increase the number of applicants.
This past fall seven applications were received for the Arthur C. Guyton Award, two for the Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award, and four for the Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award. Although the number of applications submitted is low, the quality is outstanding. The APS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics receives the highest number of applications of all the awards. This year, the Committee received 16 applications, which is similar to last year.
The Committee tracks the gender distribution of the applicants and recipients for these awards. The Committee will continue to track this information and discuss ways to try to increase the number of women applicants. The Chair will also work on this issue with the Women in Physiology Committee.
- Spring 2010 RCEA Award: the applicants were 57% female, 43% men; awardees were 60% female, 40% male.
- Fall 2010 RCEA Award: the applicants were 40% female, 60% men; awardees were 33% female, 67% male.
- Spring 2010 TCEA Award: the applicants were 67% female, 33% male; the award recipient was female.
- Fall 2010 TCEA Award: the applicants were 50% female, 50% male; both applicants were award recipients.
- 2010 Arthur Guyton Award: the applicants were 14% female, 86% men; the awardee was male.
- 2010 Mandel Award: the applicants were 50% female, 50% male; the awardee was male.
- 2010 Wang Award: the applicants were 50% female, 50% male; the awardee was male.
- 2010 APS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award: the applicants were 18% female, 82% male; both awardees were male.
The APS Awards Committee met at the Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. At that meeting, the Committee discussed the nature of the postdoctoral fellowship in physiological genomics. While the Committee agreed that the focus of this fellowship should be flexible as physiology evolves over time, it was also felt that the focus is very broad and that a clearer definition of “genomics” is needed. It was decided that a question to the application should be added in which the applicant will describe (in 200 words or less) how the proposed project relates to “genomics”.
2010-2011 Award Recipients
RCEA and TCEA Award Recipients
The Spring Research Career Enhancement Award (RCEA) recipients are Linda Boland, University of Richmond; Mihail I. Mitov, University of Kentucky; Caroline A. Rickards, University of Texas at San Antonio; Chantal A. Rivera, LSU Health Sciences Center; and Jason Daniel Vescovi, York University, Canada.
The Fall RCEA recipients are Julia Moffitt, Des Moines University; Masahiro Murakami, Yale University School of Medicine; and Paul Reynolds, Brigham Young University.
The Spring Teaching Career Enhancement Award (TCEA) recipient was Penelope A. Hansen, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
The Fall TCEA recipients are Kristin Gosselink, University of Texas at El Paso; and Stefan Pulver, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Young Investigator Awards
The APS has three Young Investigator Awards, the Arthur C. Guyton Award for Excellence in Integrative Physiology, the Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award, and the Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award. The Arthur C. Guyton Award was awarded to Kelly Paul Fadel, University of Missouri. The Lazaro J. Mandel was awarded to Alexander Staruschenko, Medical College of Wisconsin. The Shih-Chun Wang was awarded to Patrick Mueller, Wayne State University.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics
The recipients of the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Physiological Genomics are Victor Lira, University of Virginia, and Colin Young, Cornell University.