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Florant Receives Award
Four APS Members Elected to National Academy of Sciences |
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“Since his arrival at Colorado State University in 1995, Gregory Florant has been a member of the Minority Caucus, a mentor for Black Student Services, the Principal Investigator on a National Institutes of Health training grant for under-represented groups in science, and chair of the Native American Women in Science Scholarship Committee. Nationally, Dr. Florant's contributions to minorities in science include: membership on several committees for the American Physiological Society, membership on the NIH Minority Biomedical Research Support program, service to the Ford Foundation Fellowship program, and membership on the NIH Network of Minority Research Investigators Committee. In addition to these important contributions, Dr. Florant has been an inspirational role model for scores of students through his teaching and research program.” |
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Four members of APS were elected to the
prestigious National Academy of Sciences on May 1 in recognition of their
“distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” They were
among the 72 new members and 18 foreign associates selected during the academy’s
144th annual meeting. The four APS members selected to the National Academy are: John G Hildebrand, professor of neurobiology, biochemistry and molecular biophysics, entomology and molecular and cellular biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is also the director of the Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neurobiology at the university. He studies the insect nervous system to discover fundamental principles common to many or all nervous systems. Eve E. Marder, professor of neuroscience, department of biology, and the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA. She is the editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology and is president-elect of the Society for Neuroscience. Her research focuses on how interactions between neurons give rise to the function of neuronal circuits. Gerald I. Shulman, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and professor of medicine and cellular molecular physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. His research focuses on insulin resistance with an aim to develop therapeutic targets to reverse insulin resistance in patients with type 2 diabetes. Masao Ito, director, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Saitama, Japan. His research centers on the molecular and cellular basis for learning and memory. He has served as the president of the Physiological Society of Japan and is an honorary member of the APS. The National Academy of Sciences has 2,025 active members and 387 foreign associates, and more than 200 of them have won the Nobel Prize. The academy is a private organization formed in 1863 to provide expert advice to the federal government on scientific and technological issues. The academy was formed with the approval of Congress and President Abraham Lincoln. |
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Stephen L. Archer is presently Section Chief of
Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL. Formerly, Archer
was an Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. William M. Chilian, Professor and Chair, recently affiliated with the Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Department of Physiology/Pharmacology, Rootstown, OH. Prior to his new position, Chilian was Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans. Jonathan M. Davis is currently Professor of Pediatrics, Chief Newborn Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. Prior to his new position, Davis was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Chief Newborn Medicine, Winthrop University Hospital, SUNY, Mineola, NY. Allan Doctor, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, has joined the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. Prior to his new appointment, Doctor was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Matthew D. Douglass has affiliated with the Department of Exercise Physiology, Human Performance Lab, Ball State University, Muncie, IN. Douglass was formerly associated with the Department of Kinesiology, Anderson University, Anderson, IN. Jonathan P. Dugas is currently a Postdoctoral Student, Department of Movement Sciences University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Dugas had been a Student at the Research Unit for Exercise Science & Sports, University Cape Town, Newlands Cape Town, South Africa. Kirsten Farrand is currently an Assistant Lecturer, University of Queensland, School of Biomedical Science, St. Lucia Queensland, Australia. Farrand was formerly affiliated with the University of Adelaide, Department of Physiology, Adelaide, South Australia. Allan T. Gulledge, an Assistant Professor, has joined the Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH. Prior to his new assignment, Gulledge was affiliated with the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Department of Cerebral Circuitry, Okazaki-shi, Aichi, Japan. Kenneth A. Hoekstra, an Assistant Professor, has moved to the Division of Basic Sciences, Western States Chiropractic College, Portland, OR. Hoekstra was formerly an Instructor, School of Rehabilitation Sciences and the MD Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Tokihisa Kimura recently accepted the position of Hospital Administration Manager, Miyagi Prefectural Government, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. Kimura was formerly an Associate Professor, Furukawa City Hospital, Furukawa City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Ryuta Kinugasa, is a Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego, at the MR3T Research Laboratory, Department of Radiology, San Diego, CA. Kinugasa was formerly an Assistant Professor, Research Center of Sports Sciences, Department of Radiology, Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan. Harm J. Knot, an Associate Professor, has affiliated with Wake Forest University, Department of Regenerative Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC. Knot was formerly associated with the Department of Pharmacology/Therapeutics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Susumu Koyama is currently an Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka University, Johnan-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. Prior to his new position, Koyama was a Visiting Research Assistant, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Illinois, Chicago. Todd Jason McWhorter, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has associated with Murdoch University, Department of Veterinary Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch, Western Australia. McWhorter was formerly a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Carlos E. Milla, an Associate Professor, has affiliated with the Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Biology, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, CA. Milla, as Assistant Professor, had been with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. Patrick J. Mueller has joined the Department of Physiology as an Assistant Professor, at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Prior to his new position, Mueller had been a Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Columbia. P. Darrell Neufer, an Associate Professor, has joined the Department of Physiology & Exercise Sport Science, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC. Formerly, Neufer was an Assistant Fellow and Assistant Professor, John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Robert Paine, an Associate Professor, has joined the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Prior to his new position, Paine was an Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Barry M. Prior, an Assistant Professor, has affiliated with Mercer University School of Medicine, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, Macon, GA. Previously, Prior was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia. Rhonda D. Prisby, is presently a Postdoctoral Fellow, University Saint Etienne, Faculty of Medicine, Saint Etienne, France. Prisby was formerly affiliated with the Department of Exercise Physiology, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Luis Reuss, as Professor and Chair, joined the Department of Physiology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX. Previously, Reuss was Professor, Department of Neuroscience & Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Masaru Shoji, a Professor, has recently affiliated with the Department of Pharmacodynamics, Meiji Pharmaceu-tical University, Tokyo, Japan. Former-ly, Shoji was an Associate Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan. Craig S. Stump, an Associate Professor, has joined the Department of Endocrinology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Prior to his new assignment, Stump was an Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia. Varsha Thakur is a Research Associate, Department of Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Thakur was formerly a Research Associate with the Department of Microbiology/Immunology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL. Yoshio Watanabe, a Consultant Cardiologist, has affiliated with the Department of Cardiology, Nagoya Tokusmukai General Hospital, Kasugai, Japan. Prior to his new position, Watanabe was a Consultant Cardiologist with Shonan Kamakura General Hospital Heart Center, Kamakura, Japan. Akinori Yanaka has affiliated with the Tokyo University of Science as Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Chiba-ken, Japan. Yanaka was formerly an Instructor, Department of Gastroenterology, University of Tsukuba, Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. |
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