Alaji Bah, a graduate student in biochemistry, has been awarded the 2009 Etter Student Lecturer award from the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) and has been invited to present his work in the Structural Enzymology session at the 2009 ACA meeting in Toronto. Bah engineered a thrombin variant that is active only in the anticoagulant pathway and has potential clinical relevance. …
Joseph Corbo, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of genetics, has received a two-year, $100,000 grant from the American Health Assistance Foundation for research titled “Identifying cis-Regulatory Elements around the ARMS2 Locus.” …
Tyrone L. Daulton, Ph.D., research scientist in the Center for Materials Innovation, has received a one-year, $35,176 grant from the Naval Research Laboratory for research titled “Microcharacterization of Biogenic Nanowire Structures by Electron Microscopy.” …
Christine Floss, Ph.D., research associate professor of physics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $168,493 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Search for Impact Craters on the Stardust Interstellar Collector Tray.” …
James L. Gibson, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $98,700 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “SGER: Money, Politics, and the Legitimacy of State Supreme Courts: The Impact of Recusals and Disqualifications.” …
Robert O. Heuckeroth, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and of developmental biology, was one of only four physician-scientists nationwide to receive the Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The five-year, $750,000 award will support his work into the genetic and non-genetic risk for Hirschsprung disease. …
Aimee James, Ph.D., assistant professor of surgery, has received a two-year, $242,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “Peer Out-reach to Facilitate Colorectal Cancer Screening in Safety Net Clinics.” …
David K. Levine, Ph.D., the Biggs Distinguished Professor of Economics in Arts & Sciences, has received a three-year, $212,040 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Applications of the Self Con-trol/Dual Self Model in Economics.” …
Katharina Lodders, Ph.D., research professor in earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $92,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for research titled “Bright Earths: Models of the Post Giant Impact Atmospheres of Young Terrestrial Planets.” …
Lynn McCloskey, assistant provost-analysis, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award during the 2009 annual meeting of the Association of American Universities Data Exchange. McCloskey was selected by the nominating committee for her sustained and dedicated efforts on behalf of the data exchange. …
Herman D. Pontzer, Ph.D., assistant professor of anthropology in Arts & Sciences, and Susan B. Racette, Ph.D., research assistant professor of physical therapy, have received a two-year, $196,972 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Metabolic Cost of Living in Human Foragers.” Also included in the grant was William W. Wong, Ph.D., of the Baylor College of Medicine. …
Tiffany Reese, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar in pathology and immunology, has received a three-year, $140,000 fellowship from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for research titled “The Immune Response to Latent Gamma Herpesvirus Infection.” …
Michelle M. Sandau, Ph.D., postdoctoral research scholar in pathology and immunology, has received a two-year, $59,238 fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease for research entitled “Analysis of Bidirectional Signaling Mechanisms for BTLA and HVEm.” …
Robert D. Schreiber, Ph.D., the Alumni Professor of Pathology and Immunology and professor of molecular microbiology, has received a one-year, $145,340 contract from Igenica Pharmaceuticals for research titled “Monoclonal Antibodies To Human Cell Surface Tumor Antigens.” …
Anjan Thakor, Ph.D., the John E. Simon Professor of Finance, ranked No. 4 — the top 1 percent — of the most prolific authors in seven leading finance journals, according to a recent St. Joseph University and Trinity University study. Thakor also ranked No. 11 among those published in 26 core finance journals. Other WUSTL professors ranked were Stuart Greenbaum, Ph.D., the Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership, at No. 56 in leading journals (No. 144 in core journals), Philip Dybvig, Ph.D., the Boatman’s Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance, at No. 184 (No. 239), and Guofu Zhou, Ph.D., professor of finance, at No. 295 (No. 268). …
Suzanne Till, graduate student in international affairs in Arts & Sciences, has been selected by the Kiva organization as a Kiva Fellow. The Kiva organization alleviates poverty by connecting individual lenders directly to unique entrepreneurs around the world and using the Internet to showcase borrowers to match with potential lenders. As a Kiva Fellow, Till will travel internationally for 10-12 weeks this fall to study microlending. Follow Till on her blog at mssuzanne.wordpress.com. …
Nneka Ufere, while a first-year medical student, was named editor of an issue of Virtual Mentor, the American Medical Association’s online ethics journal written by students and residents. Virtual Mentor explores the ethical challenges that students, residents and other physicians are likely to face in their training and daily practice. Theme issue editors are selected each year through a competitive process from among medical students and residents. …
Lihong Wang (contact principal investigator), Ph.D., the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering, and Barbara Monsees (principal investigator), M.D., professor of radiology, have received a five-year, $3,063,610 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research titled “Monitoring of Breast Neoadjuvant Therapy by Thermo- and Photo-Accoustic Tomograph.” …
Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton received the John D. Levy Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee at a ceremony at the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis May 18. The committee’s St. Louis chapter bestows the award on individuals whose tireless work has left a positive and indelible impact on the quality of life of the community they live in.