Mark Johnston, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of genetics, recently was named president of the Genetics Society of America. Johnston, who had previously served as vice-president of the 4,000-member society, will serve a one-year term. …
Hillary Johnson, a student in the School of Medicine, was recently elected the vice chair of the American Medical Association Medical Student Section governing council. The AMA-MSS has nearly 50,000 medical-student members and holds two national meetings per year. …
Susan E. Mackinnon, M.D., the Sydney M. Shoenberg Jr. and Robert H. Shoenberg Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and head of that division, was recently appointed president-elect of the American Association of Hand Surgery, and treasurer of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. …
Harriet K. Switzer, Ph.D., secretary to the Board of Trustees, was recently honored with an award for leadership and contributions to the Board Professional Staff Conferences and her dedication to the profession and to higher education. The award was presented March 28 at a meeting of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges in New Orleans, where she also led a discussion on the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, an act signed into law by George W. Bush in the wake of corporate scandals. …
Sheila Stewart, Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and physiology, has won a 2004 Kimmel Scholar Award. The awards are presented annually to a handful of the nation’s most promising young cancer researchers by the Sidney Kimmel Foundation for Cancer Research. They provide $200,000 in research funding for two years. Stewart’s Kimmel award is the first to be given to a WUSTL researcher. …
Nguyet M. Nguyen, M.D., instructor in medicine, has received a five-year, $600,461 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Laminin Alpha5 and Alveogenesis.” …
Jan Amend, Ph.D., assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $165,280 grant from the University of South Florida for research titled “Ecosystem Response to Elevated Arsenic Levels.” …
Todd Braver, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $130,670 grant from Yale University and the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Neural Substrates of Emotion-Cognition Interactions.” …
Robert E. Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $58,014 grant from the National Science Foundation for “Upgrading of Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Automated Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Water.” …
Courtney W. Houchen, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received a three-year, $459,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Prostaglandins and Gastrointestinal DNA Damage.”
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