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Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 02 | Back Issues
Honors and Awards
Congratulations to MBL Corporation member Clay Armstrong of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and MBL summer investigator Marc Kirschner of Harvard University for being awarded the prestigious 2001 International Gairdner Award. The Gairdner Award is an international prize that recognizes major contributions to medical science. Armstrong shares this award with other friends of the MBL, Rod MacKinnon of The Rockefeller University, and Bertil Hille of the University of Washington School of Medicine. Armstrong, MacKinnon, and Hille were recognized for “the elucidation of the mechanism of action and molecular structure of cation channels.” Kirschner was recognized for “his pioneering work in the understanding of the structure, function, and dynamics of microtubules.” The International Gairdner Award has been given to 259 individuals since the program was established in 1959. Fifty-six awardees have gone on to win the Nobel Prize.
We were also pleased to learn that Microbial Diversity Course alumnus (1999) Christopher Chyba was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship this fall. Chyba is an astrobiologist and the Carl Sagan Chair at the SETI Institute. The MacArthur Fellows Program awards the five-year, unrestricted fellowship to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits, and a marked capacity for self-direction.” |
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