WASHINGTON – The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Editorial Board has selected six PNAS papers for the 2008 Cozzarelli Prize, an award that recognizes the most outstanding contributions in each of the scientific disciplines represented by the National Academy of Sciences.
Papers receiving the Cozzarelli Prize were chosen from nearly 3,500 research articles published by PNAS in 2008 and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences is organized.
The annual award acknowledges recently published papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. The award was established in 2005 and renamed the Cozzarelli Prize in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. This year's awards will be presented at the PNAS Editorial Board Meeting on April 26, 2009, in Washington, D.C.
2008 Cozzarelli Prize recipients:
- Class I (Physical and Mathematical Sciences):
"Fluid helium at conditions of giant planetary interiors," by Lars Stixrude and Raymond Jeanloz
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/32/11071A commentary accompanying this article is available: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/32/11035
- Class II (Biological Sciences):
"MicroRNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in mammalian cells," by Daniel H. Kim, Pål Sætrom, Ola Snøve, Jr., and John J. Rossi
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/42/16230 - Class III (Engineering and Applied Sciences):
"The implications of human metabolic network topology for disease comorbidity," by D.-S. Lee, J. Park, K. A. Kay, N. A. Christakis, Z. N. Oltvai, and A.-L. Barabási
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/9880A commentary accompanying this article is available: http://www.pnas.org/content/105/29/9849
- Class IV (Biomedical Sciences):
"Neurons derived from reprogrammed fibroblasts functionally integrate into the fetal brain and improve symptoms of rats with Parkinson's disease," by Marius Wernig, Jian-Ping Zhao, Jan Pruszak, Eva Hedlund, Dongdong Fu, Frank Soldner, Vania Broccoli, Martha Constantine-Paton, Ole Isacson, and Rudolf Jaenisch
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/15/5856 - Class V (Behavioral and Social Sciences):
"Cross-modal Individual Vocal Recognition in the Domestic Horse (Equus caballus)," by Leanne Proops, Karen McComb, and David Reby
http://www.pnas.org/content/106/3/947A commentary accompanying this article is available: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/3/669
- Class VI (Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences):
"Decreases in dengue transmission may act to increase the incidence of dengue hemorrhagic fever," by Yoshiro Nagao and Katia Koelle
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/6/2238
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