Awards

Amsterdam, NL, July 16, 2018 -- The Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (JAD) is pleased to announce that Greg Kennedy, a PhD candidate at the Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia, has been chosen as the recipient of the 2018 Alzheimer Award.

Professor in the School of Urban and Environmental Engineering at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has received the 2018 AOGS Kamide Award, becoming the the first Korean-American scientist to earn the prestigious award.

ASHG has named Mary-Claire King, Ph.D., as the 2018 recipient of the Advocacy Award. Dr. King is American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. This award honors individuals or groups who have exhibited excellence and achievement in applications of human genetics for the common good, in areas such as facilitating public awareness of genetics issues, promoting funding for biomedical research, and integrating genetics into health systems.

Seth Davidovits, a 2017 graduate of the Program in Plasma Physics in the Princeton University Department of Astrophysical Sciences, has won the 2018 Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award presented by the American Physical Society.

Jennifer Pazour, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at Rensselaer, has been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's 24th annual US Frontiers of Engineering symposium.

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Cecilia Lindgren, Ph.D., as the recipient of its 2018 Mentorship Award. This award recognizes ASHG members who have significant records of accomplishment as mentors.

Psychologist Carolyn Murray at UC Riverside has been awarded the 2018 Dr. William Montague Cobb award for special achievements in public health at the local level, presented annually by the National Health Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The award is given to an outstanding individual in a local community "in recognition of special achievement in areas of social justice, health justice advocacy, health education, health promotion, fundraising, and research."

ASHG named Sekar Kathiresan, M.D., as the 2018 recipient of the Curt Stern Award. Dr. Kathiresan is the Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. This annual award recognizes genetics and genomics researchers who have made significant scientific contributions during the past decade.