Awards

2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Suresh Rattan

2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Suresh Rattan

Suresh Rattan, Ph.D., D.Sc. heads the Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the recipient of the Lord Cohen Medal in Gerontology from the British Society for Research on Ageing, an Honorary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, and is the present Chairman […]

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2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Walter J. Kozumbo

2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Walter J. Kozumbo

Walter J. Kozumbo, Ph.D., After graduating from Princeton University (AB, 1967), Walt taught science and coached sports for nearly a decade at the Gilman School, Baltimore, MD.  During this time, he earned a Master’s degree in biology from Purdue University (MS, 1972) and another in Liberal Arts (MLA, 1976) from Johns Hopkins University.  Excited by […]

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2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Christopher Thome

2017 Outstanding Career Achievement: Christopher Thome

Christopher Thome, Ph.D.,  After receiving a bachelor of medical sciences degree from the University of Western Ontario, Dr. Thome went on to study at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where he received a master’s degree in health and radiation physics and a PhD in medical physics, under the supervision of Dr. Douglas Boreham. Currently, Dr. […]

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2016 Outstanding Career Achievement: Thomas E. Johnson

2016 Outstanding Career Achievement: Thomas E. Johnson

Tom Johnson, the recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Career Achievement Award, is a Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Integrative Physiology. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Behavioral Genetics where he first affiliated in 1981. Dr. Johnson received his BS at MIT, where he worked with David […]

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2016 Outstanding New Investigator: Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez

2016 Outstanding New Investigator: Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez

A Puerto Rico native, Dr López-Martínez received his MS and PhD from the Ohio State University with a focus on stress physiology of temperate and polar insects. A big component of his graduate work was rooted in hormesis and the protective benefits that low-levels of stress have against higher levels of different stressors (cross tolerance). […]

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2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Carol Marcus

2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Carol Marcus

Carol Marcus was born and raised in New York City. She received her B.S. in General Biology in 1960, an M.S. in Radiation Biology in 1961, and a Ph.D. in Physical Biology in 1963, all at Cornell University. She spent a year doing radiobiology research at the RVO-TNO in Rijswijk, The Netherlands. She then worked […]

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2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Mark L. Miller

2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Mark L. Miller

Professor Miller’s research focuses on radiation dose and risk assessment; radiation measurement and sampling techniques and procedure development; design and implementation of environmental and personnel radiation monitoring programs; emergency planning and response; transportation and disposal of radioactive waste; computer programming as required for data management and analysis; radiation safety training and public speaking; and as […]

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2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI)

2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI)

Website: http://radiationeffects.org In 2013, in response to the harm caused by the misinformation propagated regarding radiation effects in Fukushima, following the initiative of Dr. Bobby Scott of Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, a group of about 20 scientists formed a new group known as Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI) with the following Charter and Mission: […]

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2015 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Douglas Boreham

2015 Award for Outstanding Leadership: Douglas Boreham

DR. DOUGLAS BOREHAM currently holds positions as Professor and Division Head of Medical Sciences at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (Sept 2012-Present) and is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medical Physics and Applied Radiation Sciences at McMaster University (2000-Present). He is also Principal Scientist and Manager of the Integration Department at Bruce […]

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2015 Outstanding Career Achievement: Kelvin J. A. Davies

2015 Outstanding Career Achievement: Kelvin J. A. Davies

Prof. Kelvin J. A. Davies Kelvin J. A. Davies, Ph.D., D.Sc. is the James E. Birren Chair and Dean of Faculty at the University of Southern California’s, School of Gerontology. He is also Professor of Molecular and Computational Biology in USC’s College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. Professor Davies was born and raised in London, […]

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