Henry J. Binder, M.D., professor of medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology, has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Gastroenterological Association. The award recognizes an individual who has made a major contribution to clinical or basic research in gastroenterology or in an allied field.  

Alison P. Galvani, Ph.D., assistant professor of epidemiology, has received a Young Investigators’ Prize from the American Society of Naturalists for her research on how evolutionary forces shape the engagement between infectious agents and the immune system of individual hosts, and on how evolution shapes host-parasite interactions.  

Bryan C. Hains, Ph.D., associate research scientist in neurology, has been awarded a two-year Pfizer Scholars Grant in Pain Medicine for his research on neuropathic pain in spinal-cord and peripheral nerve injury. The award supports the career development of junior faculty who are pursuing pain medicine research relevant to human health.  

Josephine Hoh, Ph.D., associate professor of epidemiology, has been selected as a 2005 New Scholar in Aging by the Ellison Medical Foundation. The four-year, $200,000 award will allow Hoh to further her earlier research, which identified at least one important genetic variant in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness.  

Theodore R. Holford , Ph.D., the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Holford studies temporal trends in disease maps, models for controlling cancer, and the use of geographic information systems to assess environmental exposures and disease risk.

Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., assistant professor of immunobiology, has been named a 2005 Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. The award will support her research on the interaction between host and viruses that cause diseases such as genital herpes and respiratory influenza infection.  

Becca Levy, Ph.D., associate professor in the School of Public Health’s Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, has been named a fellow in the Behavioral and Social Sciences section of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA). The GSA is the nation’s oldest scientific organization devoted to research, practice and education in aging.  

Glenn C. Micalizio, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, has been named a 2005 Beckman Young Investigator. The Young Investigator Awards are given annually by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to provide support to promising young faculty members in the early stages of academic careers in the chemical and life sciences.  

Stephanie S. O’Malley, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Substance Abuse Research, has won the 2004 Dan Anderson Research Award. The award, sponsored by the Butler Center for Research at the Hazelden Foundation, honors a researcher who has advanced scientific understanding of recovery from addiction.  

Lynne J. Regan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of chemistry, has won a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for her research on novel anti-cancer reagents. The Fellowships support research in all fields of knowledge, under the freest possible conditions, on the basis of distinguished achievement and exceptional promise.  

Sandra G. Resnick, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry and associate director of the Northeast Program Evaluation Center of the Veterans Health Administration, received the Carol T. Mowbray Early Career Research Award from the U.S. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association for her research on consumer-run mental health programs for veterans.  

Raymond Yesner, M.D., professor emeritus and senior research scientist in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology for more than 50 years, has been awarded the Gold Medal by the International Academy of Pathology (IAP) for excellence in research and teaching. Yesner, a longstanding member of the IAP, is an authority on pathology of the lung.