Daniel E. Goldberg, MD, PhD, professor of molecular microbiology and of medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator in Medicine, was named to a four-year term as a member of the Pathogenic Eukaryotes Study Section, Center for Scientific Review of the National Institutes of Health. …
Clifford Holekamp, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship at Olin Business School, will receive the Washington and Lee University 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award May 14 at the Washington and Lee campus. Holekamp earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Washington and Lee in 1996. …
Robert P. Mecham, PhD, the Alumni Endowed Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, professor of medicine, of biomedical engineering and of pediatrics, has received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for research titled “Vessel Stiffening, Hypertension and Vascular Extracellular Matrix.” …
Helen Piwnica-Worms, PhD, professor and head of cell biology and physiology, the Gerty T. Cori Professor and professor of medicine, has received a five-year, $400,000 American Cancer Society Research Professorship. …
Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering, has received a one-year, $598,910 grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Center for Research Resources for a “High-Frequency Ultrasonic and Photoacoustic Imaging System.”