Awards

2015 Outstanding New Investigator: James Mitchell

2015 Outstanding New Investigator: James Mitchell

James Mitchell Associate Professor of Genetics and Complex Diseases Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA After graduating from the University of Virginia in 1993, Dr. Mitchell worked as a technician at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Dr. Bruce Stillman’s lab for two years, where he became interested in biochemistry, the […]

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2014 Outstanding Leadership Award: Mohan Doss

2014 Outstanding Leadership Award: Mohan Doss

Dr. Mohan Doss received BSc degree in Physics from Madras University, India and his MSc degree in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He obtained MS and PhD degrees in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University. After 10 years of post-doctoral research in USA and Canada, he became a Medical Physicist in the Nuclear Medicine […]

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2014 Outstanding New Investigator Award: Rehana Leak

Rehana Leak is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Duquesne University and studies stress-induced adaptations or toxicity in models of neurodegeneration. Dr. Leak was trained in Neuroscience at Barnard College (B.A., graduated magna cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa induction) and the University of Pittsburgh (M.S., Ph.D., National Science Foundation graduate scholarship). Following a brief […]

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2014 Outstanding Career Achievement Award: Mark P. Mattson

2014 Outstanding Career Achievement Award: Mark P. Mattson

After receiving his PhD degree from the University of Iowa, Dr. Mattson completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Neuroscience at Colorado State University. He then joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he advanced to Full Professor. In 2000, Dr. Mattson took the position of Chief of […]

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2007 Outstanding Leadership: Sadao Hattori, PhD

2007 Outstanding Leadership: Sadao Hattori, PhD

At the forefront of hormesis, for over 20 years Sadao Hattori has been a proponent of the hormetic effect of radiation. Having done extensive research in radiation hormesis and encouraging his colleagues to focus their studies in this direction as well, Dr. Hattori’s extensive work, research, and lectures have been instrumental in bringing an understanding […]

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2007 Outstanding New Investigator: Nina Cedergreen, PhD

2007 Outstanding New Investigator: Nina Cedergreen, PhD

Nina Cedergreen was born in the western part of Denmark in 1969. In 1989 she began her Masters studies in biology at the University of Århus, Denmark, and completed her degree in 1997 with a M.Sc. in Ecological Plant Physiology. In January 2001, she defended her Ph.D. in plant adaptation to multiple stresses focussing on […]

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2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Erno Tyihak, PhD

2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Erno Tyihak, PhD

Ernő Tyihák is a scientific adviser at Plant Protection Institute of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (for chromatography, mainly overpressured layer chromatography, OPLC) as well as honorary professor at Szeged Science University, Szeged, Hungary. He is candidate of chemical sciences (PhD degree) (1978) in biochemistry and at […]

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2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Ronald E. J. Mitchel, PhD

2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Ronald E. J. Mitchel, PhD

Ron Mitchel was granted his Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and was subsequently awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in the UCLA School of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry. He then returned to Canada and joined the Radiation Biology & Health Physics Branch of Atomic Energy of Canada in Chalk River […]

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2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Edouard Alexandre Azzam, PhD

2007 Outstanding Career Achievement: Edouard Alexandre Azzam, PhD

Edouard Azzam earned his Ph.D. degree in Radiation Biology from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1995. During his post-graduate studies and subsequent research career, he focused on characterizing the effects of low dose/low fluence ionizing radiation in normal human cells. He has shown that biological effects at low doses cannot be predicted from effects […]

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2008 Outstanding New Investigator: Sergio Parra

2008 Outstanding New Investigator: Sergio Parra

I was born on January 5, 1974 in Medellín, Colombia. At age seventeen I went to the Universidad de Antioquia pursuing a career in medicine, ultimately becoming a physician. Throughout my college years I had the honor to rank in the 5th position among last year’s Colombian students of medicine, and rank in the 2nd […]

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