VOLUME 12, NUMBER 14 • JANUARY 26, 2001

University scientists earned many honors in past year

Below is a list of recent faculty honors, as provided by the researchers.

Jan Breslow

2000 Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in Cardiovascular Research

2000 Scientific Councils Distinguished Achievement Award, AHA

Brian Chait

2000 Bijvoet Medal, Utrecht University, Holland

1999 Columbia IAP Lecturer

Joel Cohen

2000-2004 Councilor, Class II (Biological Sciences), American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2000 Member, Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy

2000 Hitchcock Professor, University of California, Berkeley

1999 Commencement speaker, University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources

2000 Appointed to Executive Committee, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2001-2003 Reappointed to Class V Membership Committee, American Philosophical Society

2001 Nominated to stand for election to the Council, National Academy of Sciences

Gheorghe Lazar Prize of the Romanian Academy for the book, Comparisons of Stochastic Matrices, with Applications in Information Theory, Statistics, Economics, and Population Sciences

2001 Executive Committee (committee of selection), Tyler World Prize for Environmental Achievement

James E. Darnell

2000 Chiron Lectures, University of California, Berkeley

2000 Wellcome Visiting Professor in the Basic Medical Sciences, Univeristy of California, Santa Barbara

2000 Honorary Doctor of Science, Albany Medical College

2000 Novartis/Drew Award in Biomedical Research

Robert Darnell

2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research

Titia de Lange

2000-2004 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award

2000-2001 President, Harvey Society

2000 Elected Foreign Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences

Vincent Dole

2000 Warren Williams Award, American Psychiatric Association

Vincent Fischetti

2000 Keynote Address, Joint German Conference for Microbiology

1999 Keynote Address, Japanese Lancefield Society Annual Meeting

1999 John H. Hanks Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health

1999 Pfizer Lectureship, University of Pittsburgh

Jeff Friedman

2000 Osborne Mendel Award, American Society for Nutritional Sciences

2000 Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal, Society for Endocrinology, United Kingdom

1999 Janssen Award for Special Achievement in Gastroenterology

1999 Steven C. Beering Award, Indiana University School of Medicine

1999 Van Wyk Lecture, University of North Carolina

Verna and Marrs McLean Lecture, Baylor College of Medicine

Theresa Gaasterland

1999 NSF Career Award

2000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award in Molecular Parasitology

International Society for Computational Biology, Certificate of Appreciation for Service as Secretary, 1996-2000

2000 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering

David Gadsby

2000-2001 Benjamin Meaker Visting Professorship Award, University of Bristol, UK

1999-2000 President, Society of General Physiologists

Chair, Ion Channels 2000, Gordon Research Conference

NIH MERIT Award

Ulrike Gaul

2000 Seth Feldman Chair of Research, The Brain Tumor Society

Charles Gilbert

2000 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Paul Greengard

1999 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award

1999 Mayor of New York City’s Award for Excellence in Science and Technology

1999 Senior Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences

2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Mary E. Hatten

2000 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

David Ho

1999 Hoechst Marion Roussel Award

1999 Honorary Doctor of Science, State University of New York, Institute of Technology

2000 Honorary Doctor of Science, Columbia University

2000 Commencement Speaker, Harvard School of Public Health

2000 American Association for Clinical Chemistry Award

2000 Presidential Citizen’s Medal

A. James Hudspeth

1999 Hitchcock Lectureship, University of California, Berkeley

2000 Highes Knowles Prize, Northwestern University

Mary Jeanne Kreek

1999 American Society of Addication Medicine, R. Brinkley Smithers Distinguished Scientist Award and Lecture

1999 College on Problems of Drug Dependence Nathan B. Eddy Memorial Award for Lifetime Excellence in Drug Abuse Research

2000 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Uppsala, Sweden

2000 Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences

Joshua Lederberg

1999 Morris Collen Award, American College of Medical Informatics

Arnold Levine

1999 Rabbi Shai Shacknai Memorial Prize, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Israel

1999 Charles S. Mott Prize, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation

1999 Centennial Gold Medal Award, National Institute of Social Sciences

2000 Thomas P. Infusino Prize in Cancer Causation and Epidemiology, Launtenberg Center and Hebrew University

2000 Honorary Doctor of Laws, Rider University

2000 Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Biomedical Research, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

2000 Honorary Doctor of Science, Bard College

2000 Keio Medical Science Prize, Keio University Medical Science Fund, Japan

1999 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award

Rosenstiel Award

Hodgkin Huxley Katz Prize Lecturer, Physiological Society, England

2000 Cruickshank Lecture, GRC on Ion Channels

Bruce McEwen

Honorary Doctor of Science, Oberlin College

John McKinney

"Core Scientist" Sequella Global TB Foundation

Tom Muir

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

Burroughs Wellcome Fund New Investigator Award

Jürg Ott

NIH MERIT Award

Donald Pfaff

ISI Highly Cited Researcher Award

Michael Rout

Irma T. Hirschl Trust Career Scientist

Sinsheimer Scholar Award

Rita Allen Foundation Scholar

Merck Genome Research Institute Grant

Thomas Sakmar

1999 Sonderforschungsbereich Lecture, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat, Freiburg, Germany

2000 Merck Frosst Lecture, Great Lakes GPCR Symposium, London, Ontario, Canada

2000 Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholar Award

Andrej Sali

2000 Irma T. Hirschl Trust Career Scientist Award

Ralph Steinman

1999 Robert Koch Prize, Germany

1999 Honorary Doctorate, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium

Markus Stoffel

Emerald Foundation

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Milton Werner

W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Scholar Award

Guest Lecturer, Naito Memorial Foundation

Naito Foundation International Scholar

Torsten Wiesel

Secretary General, Human Frontiers Science Program Organization