Jeffery A. Lowell, M.D.
champions organ donation awareness
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Jeffery A. Lowell, M.D. champions organ donation awareness |
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Of Note
Aaron DiAntonio, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and pharmacology in the School of Medicine, received a 2002 McKnight Scholar Award in recognition of his research into the development of connections between nerve cells. The award honors young scientists engaged in innovative research designed to bring science closer to preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases in the brain. . . Kevin Z. Truman, Ph.D., professor and chair of civil engineering, and Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., associate professor of civil engineering, have received a three-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a study titled "Partnership for Math, Science and Engineering Instruction Through Computer Visualization." The outreach program, which will fund 10 graduate fellows and 10 undergraduate teaching assistants, will involve sixth-graders from Webster Groves' Steger Sixth Grade Center and eighth-graders from St. Louis' Gateway Middle School. . . Maurizio Corbetta, Ph.D., was recently appointed section head of the stroke and brain injury rehabilitation service. . . Jin-Yu Shao, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a five-year, $1.54 million award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for a project titled "Biomechanics of Neutrophilrolling on the Endothelium." . . . Roger D. Chamberlain, D.Sc., associate professor of electrical engineering, has received the 2002 Big Fish Award from the Association of Graduate Engineering Students. The annual award recognizes teaching excellence and is based on graduate student votes. . . Jia G. Lu, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a $374,666 National Science Foundation Career Award to fund a study titled "Single Spin Transistors: Science, Application and Education." The funding is for five years and started June 1. . . Michael Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor in earth and planetary sciences, has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled "Mapping Small-Scale Structure Above the Core-Mantle Boundary." . . . Daniel W. Moran, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a five-year, $610,000 subcontract from the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency for a study titled "Human Augmentation Through Brain Machine Interfaces." Moran also has received a three-year, $240,000 grant from The Whitaker Foundation for a study titled "Motor Cortical Representation of Position and Velocity in Volitional Arm Movements." . . . David S. Sept, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical engineering, has received a five-year, $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation for a study titled "Understanding the Protein-Protein Interaction Underlying Actin-Based Cell Motility." . . . Frank C-P Yin, M.D., Ph.D., chair and the Stephen F. and Camilla T. Brauer Professor of Biomedical Engineering, is chair-elect of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). His one-year term as chair begins in March 2003. Yin also has been elected to the board of trustees of the Biomedical Engineering Society and to the AIMBE board of trustees. He will serve a three-year term on each board. . . Raymond L. Hilgert, Ph.D., professor emeritus of management and industrial relations in the Olin School of Business, has been inducted into the Small Business Administration Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the St. Louis district. . . Ramesh K. Agarwal, Ph.D., the William Palm Professor of Engineering, has received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sustained Achievement Award. The national-level award recognizes Agarwal's years of technical achievements as well as his service activities. . . Renee M. Cunningham-Williams, Ph.D., research assistant professor of social work in psychiatry in the School of Medicine, recently was recognized by the Institute for Research on Pathological Gambling and Related Disorders for presenting the "Best Poster" at the 2001 annual conference held in Las Vegas. Along with her co-authors, Linda B. Cottler and Samantha J. Books, Cunningham-Williams presented her work on the development of a diagnostic module for assessing problem gambling. . . Heather Flanagan Street, Ph.D., of the Department of Anatomy; Jeffrey Hiken, Ph.D., of the Department of Medicine; Brenda Kirchoff, Ph.D., of the Department of Psychology; John Swarthout, Ph.D., of the Department of Cell Biology; and James Watters, Ph.D., of the Department of Medicine have been named 2002 W.M. Keck Postdoctoral Fellows in Molecular Medicine by the Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Each year, the division selects four or five outstanding scientists in biomedical research with less than two years of postdoctoral research experience and awards each a fellowship of $20,000 for partial stipend support. This program was established and endowed at the School of Medicine in 1988 with a $900,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation. . . Timothy Meyer, graduate research assistant in medicine, has received a five-month, $5,000 grant from the American Federation for Aging Research for a study titled "The Effects of 3-month EHEA Supplementation in Older Adults on Vascular Reactivity." . . . Thomas A. Ferguson, Ph.D., associate professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, has received a one-year, $55,000 grant from Research to Prevent Blindness for the RPB Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award. … Kevin E. Yarasheski, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, has received a one-year, $87,467 grant from the Campbell Foundation for research titled "Rosiglitazone and Exercise Training: Effects on HIV-Infected People With Insulin Resistance, Hypertriglyceridemia, and Adipose Tissue Maldistribution." . . . Anne Cross, M.D., associate professor of neurology, has received a one-year, $33,000 grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society for research titled "Study of Cytokine Signaling Protein Expression in People With MS and Controls." . . . Michael R. DeBaun, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, has received a three-year, $100,000 grant from the Dana Foundation for research titled "The Utility of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Technique to Identify Cerebral Ischemia in Children With Sickle Cell Disease." . . . Farrokh Dehdashti, M.D., associate professor of radiology, has received a two-year, $249,998 grant from The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for research titled "Predicting Response to Hormone Therapy of Breast Cancer." |
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