Awards

Brooke Flammang, assistant professor of biological sciences at NJIT, has been named winner of the 2019 Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award by the scientific journal Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) this weekend named Purdue University a 2019 Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) Place award winner.

Chemistry Professor Siegfried R. Waldvogel from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) receives the 2020 Manuel M. Baizer Award from the Electrochemical Society (ECS), an international association based in the USA supporting scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology.

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) is pleased to announce the winners of the new Midcareer Awards, which recognize nephrologists who have distinguished themselves in five key areas of accomplishment early in their careers.

The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) will honor leaders in the fight against kidney disease during ASN Kidney Week 2019, the society's annual meeting, held Nov. 5-10 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Gruen, who studies how massive objects bend light from distant galaxies, has been named a 2019 Panofsky Fellow at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The focus of his research is to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of modern physics: What is dark matter? What is dark energy, and how is it accelerating the expansion of the universe?

The Center for BrainHealth, part of The University of Texas at Dallas, recently hosted the annual Friends of BrainHealth Scientist Selection Luncheon at the Dallas Country Club, where five scientists were awarded funds for their independently designed research studies.

ASH is pleased to recognize the following trainees, whose meritorious scientific abstract has received one of the awards in the ASH Abstract Achievement Award program portfolio, at the 61st ASH Annual Meeting, Dec. 7-10 in Orlando.

A University of Dundee researcher has been presented with a prestigious science award from the British Federation of Women Graduates (BFWG). Azul Zorzoli, a PhD student from Argentina, has received the Johnstone and Florence Stoney Prize, which recognises outstanding academic excellence in postgraduate researchers.