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Schultz Wins Seeds of Hope
Award for Pioneering Research
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Stanley G.
Schultz |
APS Member Stanley G. Schultz,
University of Texas School of Medicine, Houston, was honored on September 28
for research that led to improved health conditions for people living in
poverty. The Houston chapter of RESULTS presented Schultz with a Seeds of
Hope Award during Building Champions to End Poverty, its annual dinner and
program.
“I was privileged to direct some of the pioneering research that led to the
breakthrough discovery that a simple solution of table salt, sugar and
baking soda could prevent death from dehydration in those suffering from
diarrhea,” said Schultz, the honorary chair of this year’s RESULTS benefit.
“In 1984, RESULTS achieved its first major victory by creating a Child
Survival Account within our nation’s foreign aid budget. This account made
our discovery and other lifesaving services available to millions of
children in the developing world,” said Schultz, the H. Wayne Hightower
Distinguished Professor of the Medical Sciences and the Fondren Family Chair
in Cellular Signaling. “Oral rehydration therapy has saved more than 40
million lives over the past 30 years.”
The local award is one of numerous honors Schultz has received for his
lifelong work on the mechanisms of sodium and glucose-coupled absorption in
the small intestine. Most recently, Schultz, a professor and former dean of
the UT Medical School, received the prestigious Prince Mahidol Award in
Medicine for his basic research that led to the development of oral
rehydration therapy. King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand presented the award
to Schultz Jan. 31, 2007 at the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
APS Members Elected to Institute of
Medicine
The Institute of Medicine
(IOM) announced the names of 65 new members, raising its total active
membership to 1,501. In addition, the Institute honored five individuals by
election to foreign associate membership, bringing the total members in that
category to 82. With another 68 members holding emeritus status, the total
IOM membership is now 1,651. Included among the new members are three APS
Members.
Newly elected APS members are: Robert J. Alpern, Dean, Yale University
School of Medicine, New Haven CT; Emery N. Brown, Massachusetts General
Hospital Professor of Anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard
Medical School; and professor of computational neuroscience, health science,
and technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; and Alan H.
Jobe, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine;
and Director of Prenatal Biology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Linda Toth Honored with CRL Excellence in Refinement Award
APS Member Linda Toth,
Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine, received the 2007
Charles River Laboratories’ Excellence in Refinement Award last month at the
6th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in
Tokyo. Sponsored by Charles River Laboratories, in cooperation with the
Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), the award
honors an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the
development, promotion and/or implementation of refinement alternatives.
“Refine-ment,” one of the “3Rs of alternatives,” refers to methods aimed at
minimizing pain and distress for laboratory animals. Toth was chosen to
receive this award for “a body of research that improves both the
understanding and practice of refinement alternatives.” Trained in
pharmacology and in veterinary medicine, she is Professor in the Department
of Pharmacology and Associate Dean of Research and Faculty Affairs at
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Her exceptional ability to
integrate scientific goals and animal care serves to enhance both the
quality of research and the quality of life for laboratory animals.
Benos Named University of
Alabama Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
APS Past President Dale J.
Benos will receive the University of Alabama (UAB) Academic Health Center’s
most prestigious faculty award: the 2007 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer. He
is the chairman of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at UAB. The
award “acknowledges Benos’ many achievements and the high regard in which he
is held by his peers,” according to a statement from the university.
Schneider Appointed Interim Dean at University of
Tennessee
Edward Schneider was appointed
interim dean for the College of Graduate Health Sciences at the University
of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He joined UTHSC in 1973 and
has been associate dean for the College of Graduate Health Sciences since
1997. He also serves as a professor of physiology and biophysics.
Body Notes Composer Performs in California
Hector Rasgado-Flores and
cellist Joyce Geeting performed Body Notes: A Musical Interpretation of
Human Physiology on Sept. 9 at California Lutheran University in Thousand
Oaks, CA. The music, written by Rasgado-Flores and commissioned by the APS,
was first performed at the International Congress of Physiological Sciences
in 2005. He teaches at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
in Chicago. He is also a pianist and composer who trained at the Royal
School of Music in London and the National School of Music in Mexico City.
Goldberg Receives Knobil Award
APS member Alfred Goldberg of
Harvard Medical School has been chosen to receive the 2007 Ernst Knobil
Award from the University of Texas Medical Center in Houston. This annual
award includes a $10,000 prize and prize lectureship and is given in honor
of their former Dean, Ernst Knobil, a distinguished endocrinologist. This
award is in recognition of Goldberg’s many fundamental contributions to our
understanding of the mechanisms and regulation of intracellular protein
degradation. This prize has been previously award to Eric Kandel, Joseph
Goldstein, Stan Prusiner, and Jeffrey Friedman.
Yassine Amrani is currently
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Infection/Immunity and
Inflammation, at the University of Leicester, Leicester, UK. Prior to this
position Amrani was Research Assistant Professor, Translational Research
laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Stephane Baudry is currently a Researcher, Department of Neurophysiology of
Movement Lab, University of Colorado, Boulder. Formerly, Baudry was
affiliated with Applied Physiology Lab, University Libre De Bruxelles,
Brussels, Belgium.
Timothy A. Butterfield, an Assistant Professor, recently affiliated with
University of Kentucky, Lexington. Butterfield had been associated with Ohio
State University of Columbus, Sports Medicine Center.
Kendra Greenlee is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Biological
Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo. Prior to this position
Greenlee was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pulmonary/Critical Care
Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Alastair Hutchison is currently Professor of Pediatrics, Department of
Pediatrics/Division of Neonatology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
Prior to this position, Hutchison was Professor of Pediatrics, Women’s &
Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo.
Akimichi Kaneko is currently Dean Professor, Department of Physiology, Kio
University School Health Science, Kita-Katsurgi-gun, Japan. Prior to this
position, Kaneko was Professor and Chairman, Seijjoh Univ. School
Rehabilition, Koryo-cho City, Japan.
Hiu Yee Kwan is currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Nutritional
Science and Toxicity, Berkeley, CA. Prior to this position Kwan was
Research Coordinator, Department of Physiology, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong.
Susumu Minamisawa is currently Professor, Science and Engineering, Waseda
University, Tokyo, Japan. Prior to this position, Minamisawa was Associate
Professor, Department of Physiology, Yokohama City University Graduate
School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Japan.
Erik M. Schwiebert is currently Chief Scientific Officer and Director,
DiscoveryBioMed, LLC, Birmingham, AL. Prior to this position, Schwiebert
was Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama,
Birmingham.
Colin Selman is currently Lecturer, Integrative Physiology/Dept Zoology,
University of Aberdeen, UK. Prior to this position, Selman was PDRA, Center
for Diabetes and Endocrinology, University College of London, UK.
Ira James Smith, has affiliated with the Harvard University, Brighton, MA.
Smith had been associated with the Department of Medicine, Duke University,
Durham, NC.
John A. White is currently Professor, Department of Bioengineering,
University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Prior to this position White was
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston
University, Boston, MA.
Donna A. Williams is currently the Associate Dean for Research & Graduate
Education in the College of Nursing at Montana State University in Bozeman,
MT. Previously, Williams was at the Sinclair School of Nursing at the
University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.
Richard J. Traystman is currently Professor/Vice Chancellor for Research,
University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, CO. Prior to his new
position, Traystman was Associate Vice President, Oregon Health and Science
University, Portland, OR.
Matthew C. Kostek is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Exercise
Science/Public Health Research Center, University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC. Prior to this position, Kostek was a Postdoctoral Fellow,
Research Center for Genetic Medicine, Children’s National Medical Center,
Washington, DC.
Uwe M. Fischer is currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatric
Surgery, University of Texas Medical School, Houston,TX. Prior to this
position, Fischer was Researcher, Clinic for Cardiothoracic Surgery,
University of Cologne, Germany.
Yifan Yang is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, in the Department of
Kinesiology at McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Previously, Yang
was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the
University of California, Irvine, CA. |
