Awards & Honors
January 2013
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Gary Bassell |
Gary Bassell (cell biology) received a Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the largest nongovernmental organization that distributes funds for brain and behavior disorder research. (The foundation was previously called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.) Read more. |
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Bill Bornstein |
Bill Bornstein (endocrinology) chief quality and medical officer of Emory Healthcare, was appointed by the governor to the Special Advisory Commission on Mandated Health Insurance Benefits. |
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Xiadong Cheng |
Xiaodong Cheng (biochemistry) was named a 2012 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. Cheng is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. Read more. |
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Jaffar Khan |
Jaffar Khan (neurology) received the 2013 Clerkship Directors Teaching Award from the American Academy of Neurology and the Consortium of Neurology Clerkship Directors. He is the only clerkship director to win for both undergraduate (2013) and graduate medical education (2012) in the history of the academy. |
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Rey Martorell |
Rey Martorell (public health), received the 2012 Goapaian Gold Medal Award from the Nutrition Society of India for his expertise in food and nutrition, including agriculture, economics, sociology, and public health administration. Martorell is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of International Nutrition in the Hubert Department of Global Health. |
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Shuming Nie |
Shuming Nie (biomedical engineering) was selected as a 2012 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Nie has been an innovator in developing tiny fluorescent nanoparticles as biomedical tools. Nie is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair. Read more. |
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Barbara Rothbaum |
Barbara Rothbaum (psychiatry) received a Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the largest nongovernmental organization that distributes funds for brain and behavior disorder research. (The foundation was previously called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.) Read more. |
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Raymond Schinazi |
Raymond Schinazi (pediatrics) and Emory President James Wagner were named charter fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Schinazi is Francis Winship Walters Professor. Read more. |
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Stephen Traynelis |
Stephen Traynelis (pharmacology) received a Distinguished Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the largest nongovernmental organization that distributes funds for brain and behavior disorder research. (The foundation was previously called the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression.) Read more. |
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Larry Young |
Larry Young (psychiatry, Yerkes) received the 2012 Daniel Efron Research Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. |
