March 2, 2001
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, Ph.D., was recently elected to the boards of BJC HealthCare and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. É
Tamara L. Doering, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology in the School of Medicine, has received a three-year, $210,000 New Investigator Award in molecular pathogenic mycology from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund for research. É
Pamela Woodard, M.D., assistant professor of radiology in the School of Medicine, has received a three-year 10-month, $865,558 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for a research project titled "Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism DX-II." É
John C. Clohisy, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery in the School of Medicine, received a three-year, $231,209 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease for a research project titled "Mechanisms of Implant Particle-Induced Osteo-clastogenesis." É
Sarki A. Abdulkadir, M.D., instructor in pathology in the School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $616,860 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a research project titled "The Role of Transcription Factor EGRL in Prostate Cancer." É
Peter Joy, J.D., professor of law, recently received the 2001 Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section's William Pincus Award. The award is presented for outstanding contributions to clinical legal education, including service, scholarship, program design and implementation. President-elect of the Clinical Legal Education Association, Joy teaches the criminal justice clinic, trial practice and procedure and legal profession, an ethics course. He has been instrumental in the AALS' legal battle in Louisiana to overturn new guidelines that greatly restrict law students' ability to represent clients in law school clinical programs. Joy is also the author of several articles on clinical legal education and lawyer ethics. É
Chia-Suei Hung, M.D., American Foundation for Urologic Disease in Molecular Microbiology post-doctoral fellow in the School of Medicine, received a two-year, $46,000 grant from the American Foundation for Urologic Disease Inc. for research titled "Cellular and Molecular Analysis of the Pathogenesis in Urinary Tract Infections."
William G. Powderly, M.B, B.Ch., B.A.O., professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $2,503,621 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a research project titled "Infectious Disease/Basic Microbial Pathogenic Mechanisms." É
Craig M. Coopersmith, M.D., assistant professor of surgery in the School of Medicine, received a five-year, $555,452 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for a research project titled "Intestinal Apoptosis in Shock and Injury."
Kerry Back, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs and the Vernon W. and Marion K. Piper Professor of Financial Economics at the Olin School of Business, has been nominated by the Journal of Finance for the Smith Breeden Prize for a paper he co-authored titled, "Imperfect Competition Among Informed Traders." The prize is awarded to the best of the 93 papers published in the journal the previous year.
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