People & Places
Schultz Awarded Distinguished Professorship
Stanley Schultz, past president of the APS, has been awarded the H. Wayne Hightower Distinguished Professorship in the Medical Sciences of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is Dean of that school and also holds the Fondren Family Chair in Cellular Signaling.
Mohammed Jasim Uddin Chowdhury recently joined the US Environmental Protection Agency, Mid-Continent Ecology Division, Duluth, MN. Chowdhury was formerly affiliated with the Department of Biology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Roger Fielding is currently associated with Tufts University as Director and Scientist, USDA JM Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA. Fielding was previously affiliated with the Department of Health Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA.
Akio Inui has accepted the position of Professor, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medicine and Dental Science, Department of Social and Behavioral Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan. Inui formerly was affiliated with the Division of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, Kobe University School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
Timothy A. Jones has accepted a position with the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, School of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Jones formerly was associated with the Department of Surgery and Physiology, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Columbia, MO.
Kichang Lee has joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, as a Research Scientist. Lee was previously affiliated with the Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Robin Looft-Wilson has affiliated with the Kinesiology Department, College of William & Mary, Williams-burg, VA. Looft-Wilson had been associated with the John B. Pierce Foundation Lab, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Richard McAllister has moved to the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. McAllister was formerly a member of the Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
Jeffrey Potts has joined the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, as Associate Professor. Potts was previously affiliated with the Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.
Harry B. Rossiter moved to the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom. Formerly, Rossiter was associated with the Department of Medicine, Division of Physiology, University of California, San Diego, CA.
Nancy Rusch is currently Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR. Rusch was previously affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Narine Sarvazyan has affiliated with the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, George Washington University, Washington, DC. Formerly, Sarvazyan had been associated with the Department of Physiology, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Lubbock, TX.
Jeffrey R. Scott has joined the Immunobiology Research Center, BIDMC, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Scott had previously been associated with the Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Hirofumi Tanaka has moved to the Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Tanaka had been previously associated with the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education, University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Sonja Tang is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Tang was formerly affiliated with the Center of Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Timothy Wang is now associated with the Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY. Wang previously had been affiliated with the Division of Gastroenterology, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA.
Donald Watenpaugh has accepted the position of Associate Director, Sleep Consultants, Fort Worth, TX. Watenpaugh was formerly a Research Scientist with Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory, Groton, CT.
B. Stanley Willenbring has joined the Department of Science & Mathematics, Jefferson College of Health Sciences, Roanoke, VA. Willenbring formerly was with the Department of Biology, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, MD.
Thad E. Wilson, an Assistant Professor, moved to the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. Wilson was previously a Research Associate with the Division of Cardiology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA.
Ronald Wolff recently joined Nektar Therapeutics as a Nektar Fellow, San Carlos, CA. Wolff had been a Senior Research Scientist with Greenfield Labs, Lilly Research Labs, Greenfield, IN.
Tamaki Yamada has accepted the position of Chief of Center, Department of Public Health Center, Okazaki Medical Association, Okazaki, Japan. Yamada was formerly Research Director, 1st Department of Internal Medicine, Nagoya City University Medical School, Nagoya, Japan.
Scott Zimmerman is currently affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Sciences, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO. Zimmerman formerly was associated with the Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI.