Awards

2008 Outstanding Career Achievement: Lu Cai

2008 Outstanding Career Achievement: Lu Cai

Lu Cai received his MD in 1983, and Ph.D. in 1990 from Jilin University in China, followed by a postdoctoral training at University of Western Ontario in 1993, and McGill University in 1995, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Radiation Oncology, the University of Louisville, and also Visiting Professor and […]

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2008 Outstanding Leadership Award: Bobby Scott

2008 Outstanding Leadership Award: Bobby Scott

Dr. Bobby Scott received a B.S. in physics from the Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana, Illinois, and a Ph.D. in biophysics also from the University of Illinois. His research career mainly has focused on developing predictive models for characterizing the risk for deterministic and […]

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2009 Outstanding New Investigator: Regina Belz

2009 Outstanding New Investigator: Regina Belz

Dr. Belz studied Agricultural Engineering with specialization in plant production at the University of Hohenheim (1992-1998), in Stuttgart, Germany. Her diploma thesis dealt with the release of phytotoxins from plant mulches and its use for practical weed control. This was the first time she encounted with dose-response studies and the phenomenon of hormesis caused by […]

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2009 Outstanding Career Achievement: Ludwig Feinendegen

2009 Outstanding Career Achievement: Ludwig Feinendegen

Feinendegen, Ludwig Emil, M.D. Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Biology. Education: Cologne University, Germany, M.D. 1947-52. – Postgraduate medical training in Germany and USA, 1952-58 (Ventnor Foundation 1953-55). Current Position: Professor (emeritus), Nuclear Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, 1993- . – Research Collaborator, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, 1998-. Research Areas: Molecular nuclear medicine, […]

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2009 Outstanding Leadership Award: Jim Muckerheide

2009 Outstanding Leadership Award: Jim Muckerheide

Massachusetts State Nuclear Engineer – since 1990 President, Radiation, Science, and Health – since 1996 Co-Director, Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA – 1997-2006 Mr. Muckerheide was Senior Engineer and Project Manager in design, construction, safety analysis, licensing, and environmental and health effects for nuclear power; he was an […]

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2010 Outstanding New Investigator: Qiang Zhang

2010 Outstanding New Investigator: Qiang Zhang

Despite his extensive biomedical training, Dr. Qiang Zhang has always thought of himself as a physicist or engineer. He started his career by studying for an M.D. degree in Harbin Medical University, China from 1988 to 1995. He then came to the United States to pursue his Ph.D. degree in Physiology at the University of […]

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2010 Outstanding Career Achievement: Myron Pollycove

2010 Outstanding Career Achievement: Myron Pollycove

Dr. Pollycove began his biomedical research in 1951 at the US Army Chemical Center with two-year establishment of the cause of non hemorrhagic fatal traumatic shock. Hematology research began in 1953 at Boston VA Hospital using Chromium-51 and Iron-59 to quantify iron and red cell kinetics in normal subjects and patients. This research was refined […]

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2010 Outstanding Leadership Award: Carmel Mothersill

2010 Outstanding Leadership Award: Carmel Mothersill

Prior to 2003 Dr Mothersill ran the Radiation and Environmental Science Centre at the Dublin Institute of Technology, a centre which she and her husband Dr Seymour founded and developed. At the time of moving to Canada the centre had trained over 30 PhD students in radiobiology and was at the forefront of research in […]

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2013 Outstanding Leadership Award: A. Wallace Hayes

2013 Outstanding Leadership Award: A. Wallace Hayes

Dr. Hayes is a toxicologist with over 35 years of experience in industry and academics. He holds degrees from Auburn University (Ph.D. and M.S.) and Emory University (A.B.). Dr. Hayes was a NSF predoctoral fellow at Auburn University, a NIH individual postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, a NATO Senior Scientist at […]

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2013 Outstanding Career Achievement Award: Reinhard Wetzker

2013 Outstanding Career Achievement Award: Reinhard Wetzker

Reinhard Wetzker Education: Diploma Biochemistry, University Halle, Germany, 1975; Ph.D. Biochemistry, University Moscow, 1978. Current Position: Head of the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology, Center for Molecular Biomedicine, University Hospital, Jena, Germany. Research Areas: Molecular Cell Biology, Signaling Research, Inflammatory Stress Responses. Professional Employment: Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Biochemistry, University Hospital Jena, 1978-1992; Postdoctoral fellowship, […]

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