Recent Honors and Awards to IME Members:
William F. DeGrado, Ph.D., was elected to the National Academy of Sciences
• Louis J. Soslowsky, Ph.D., received the Charles Neer Award for Excellence in Basic Science Research of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and the Jack Hughston Award for the Best Paper Published in American Journal of Sports Medicine for 1998, from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (featured in this issue). Dr. Soslowsky received a Special Opportunity Award in Orthopaedic Bioengineering from the Whitaker Foundation and was an Invited Delegate at the National Academy of Engineering Annual Symposium on Frontiers in Engineering.
• Tracy K. McIntosh, Ph.D., received the William Fields Caveness Award from the Brain Injury Association for outstanding contributions to bettering the lives of people with brain injury
• Scott L. Diamond, Ph.D., is the 1999 recipient of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications by a Young Member of the Institute, given annually to the most distinguished chemical engineer in the country under the age of 36
• Paul A. Janmey, Ph.D., was awarded the Rothschild-Mayent lectureship at the Institut Curie, Paris, France
• Peter L Jones, Ph.D., received a Florence Murray Fellowship Award
• Randall D. Kamien, Ph.D., was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award
• A paper by Jinah Park and Dimitris Metaxas, Ph.D., was winner of a Gold Medal at MedInfo'98
• Leif H. Finkel, M.D., Ph.D., was promoted to Professor of Bioengineering, and received a Fulbright Senior Fellowship Award. He was invited to delivered a plenary lecture at the International Conference on Neural Networks in Stockholm. Dr. Finkel
• H. Scott Baldwin, M.D., was promoted to Associate Professor of Pediatrics. He was named the Letitial and Alice Scott Endowed Chair in Genetics and Molecular Biology and Co-Director of Cardiovascular Research at CHOP
• Garret A. FitzGerald, M.D., was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Arjun G. Yodh, Ph.D., was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society
• Paul Ducheyne, Ph.D., was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Member, Board of Directors, International Society for Ceramics in Medicine. He was awarded a Distinguished Professor Chair at Nanyang Institute of Technology, Singapore. Dr. Ducheyne was an invited speaker at a Gordon Research Conference on Biomineralization, the Third Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Societies of the USA, Europe, Japan and Canada, and the Third Annual Orthopaedic Tissue Engineering Meeting.
• Irena Levitan, Ph.D., was an invited speaker at the Membrane Biophysics Subgroup meeting on Ion Channels and the Cytoskeleton at the 1999 Annual Biophysical Society conference
• Natacha DePaola, Ph.D., was elected a Junior Member of the US delegation to the 5th Japan-USA-Singapore-China Conference on Biomechanics in Sendai, Japan. Dr. DePaola was promoted to Associate Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department at RPI in May 1999
• Susan S. Margulies, Ph.D., and David F. Meaney, Ph.D., were promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Bioengineering. Drs Margulies, Meaney (and Davies) received a NSF Major Research Instrumentation Grant for the acquisition of a multi photon laser scanning microscope System
• Peter F. Davies, Ph.D., was invited to speak at meetings of INSERM in Paris, Biomembran Forum 99 in Jena, Germany, the European Cardiovascular Society in Ghent, Belgium, and the Wellcome Trust in Cambridge, UK. He chaired the National Research Committee of the American Heart Association and a Task Force to plan future AHA research directions. Dr. Davies gave the inaugural Suhren-Whitaker lecture in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University. •
Several Graduate Fellowship applicants in the IME Vagelos labs won prestigious awards in the 1999 competitions. Kris Dahl (Diamond Lab) and Jason Wertheim (Hammer and Pear Labs) received Whitaker Foundation awards; Becky Gusic (Gooch Lab) and Aaron Rabinowitz (Hammer Lab) received a NSF Fellowship; and Lana Pikus (Hammer Lab) won both Whitaker and NSF Fellowships.
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