Roland E. Baron, D.D.S., Ph.D., professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation and cell biology, has received the D. Harold Copp Award from the International Bone and Mineral Society. The award, presented in Geneva, Switzerland, in June, cites Baron’s research on the mechanisms of skeletal development as having “led to significant changes in understanding of physiology or disease.”

Michael B. Bracken, Ph.D., M.P.H., the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology in the Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, has been named president-elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the largest epidemiological society in the world. Bracken’s research is focused on the epidemiology of diseases of pregnant women and newborns.

Michael Cappello, M.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the Yale Program in International Child Health, has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, a society of biomedical researchers with outstanding records of scholarly achievement. Cappello’s laboratory studies the molecular pathogenesis of hookworm anemia, a major global health problem.

Stanley J. Dudrick, M.D., professor of surgery, has received the 2005 Jacobson Innovation Award from the American College of Surgeons. Dudrick was honored for his research contributions in nutritional support for surgical patients and infants. In 1967, Dudrick was the first to demonstrate that infants could develop normally when fed intravenously.

Ronald S. Duman, Ph.D., Elizabeth Mears & House Jameson Professor of Psychiatry and professor of pharmacology, has received an NIMH Director’s Merit Award from the National Institute of Mental Health for his research on depression and stress. Duman studies the effects of stress on the hippocampus, and how antidepressant drugs stimulate neurotrophic and neurogenic actions in that structure.

Thomas M. Gill, M.D., associate professor of medicine and co-director of the Yale fellowship in geriatric medicine and clinical epidemiology, has been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies. Gill studies strategies to prevent functional decline and disability among the elderly.

Marie Louise Landry, M.D., professor of laboratory medicine and director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at Yale-New Haven Hospital, is the 2005 recipient of the Diagnostic Virology Award. The award, from the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, recognizes her outstanding contributions to the field in the area of rapid detection of viruses for clinical diagnosis.

Richard P. Lifton, M.D., Ph.D., chair and Sterling Professor of Genetics and professor of medicine and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, has been named a Distinguished Scientist of the American Heart Association. The honor is “in recognition of seminal research that has importantly advanced our understanding and management of cardiovascular disease and stroke.”  

Bruce L. McClennan, M.D., professor of diagnostic radiology, has been elected president of the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS), the oldest radiology society in the United States. McClennan, who specializes in genito-urinary radiology, began his term in July. The ARRS, founded shortly after the discovery of the X-ray, is dedicated to the advancement of radiology.

Stephen M. Strittmatter, M.D., Ph.D., the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and professor of neurobiology, has received the Senator Jacob Javits Award in the Neurosciences from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Strittmatter studies the development of the nervous system, and has discovered proteins involved in regeneration and repair after injury.

Derek K. Toomre, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology, has been named the Bayer Fellow in Medicine and Management for 2005–2006. The fellowship, established by Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. in 2002, will support Toomre’s application of advanced imaging techniques to study the dynamics of protein traffic and the cytoskeleton in migrating cells.

Edward M. Uchio, M.D., assistant professor of surgery, has received a 2005 Dennis W. Jahnigen Career Development Scholars Award from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS). The $150,000 award, one of 10 granted nationwide by the AGS to support geriatric research, will support Uchio’s research on the effects of aging on a cancer-suppressing pathway in the kidney.