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Geriatrics Expert Named
honors & awards
Marvin Baptiste, CDM ’08, is profiled in the February 2008 issue of Ebony magazine as one of 30 young African-American leaders on the rise.
Mary Gamble, Ph.D., assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School, is the first recipient of the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award, given by the American Society of Nutrition to a scientist within the first 10 years of completing postgraduate training for research on the safety and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health.
David Kimhy, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry), has been named by the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, an international cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy research, training, and clinical center, to the institute’s scholars program for 2007-2008.
The editors and reporters of Scientific American named Ian Lipkin, M.D., director of the Mailman School’s Center for Infection and Immunity, and his team’s groundbreaking research using revolutionary technologies to find a significant connection between the Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus and colony collapse disorder in honeybees, as one of the top 25 science and health stories of 2007.
Marianthi Markatou, Ph.D., professor of clinical biostatistics at the Mailman School, has been elected to the International Statistical Institute, the world’s premier professional association for career statisticians.
Allan Rosenfield, M.D., Mailman School dean, DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice, and professor of obstetrics & gynecology at P&S, received an award from the Physician’s Forum, a consortium of medical and public health advocacy organizations for his contributions to peace, justice, and public health.
GRANTS
Henry M. Colecraft, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology & cellular biophysics at P&S, received two multiyear, multi-million-dollar grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study cellular calcium channels.
Abby J. Fyer, M.D., professor of clinical psychiatry at P&S, has received a four-year, $906,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for a genome-wide association study of early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Results are expected to guide future molecular strategies to identify genes involved in the development of OCD.
Sherry Glied, Ph.D., chair and professor of health policy & management at the Mailman School, received a $189,000 grant from the Commonwealth Fund to address the debate over strategies to expand and improve healthcare coverage and control cost growth in the United States.
Michio Hirano, M.D., associate professor of neurology at P&S, has been awarded $1 million over five years by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to study how deficiency in coenzyme Q10, which is essential for cellular metabolism, develops and causes diseases at the molecular level.
Carlos Jose Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of clinical medicine-cardiology at P&S and epidemiology at the Mailman School, has been named a fellow of the Columbia University Diversity Faculty Award Program. He will use the funds to study ambulatory blood pressure, psychosocial stress, and left ventricular mass in Hispanics.
James E. Rothman, Ph.D., Clyde’56 and Helen Wu Professor of Physiology (Chemical Biology), and director of the Judith P. Sulzberger MD Columbia Genome Center, has been awarded $500,000 by the National Center for Research Resources for the purchase of a massively parallel DNA sequencer for the Columbia University community. A single sequencing run on this instrument can achieve the equivalent of more than 100 runs on each of Columbia’s currently available sequencers, dramatically expanding the scope of scientific research programs. The new sequencer will be housed at the Genome Center.
Janet Sparrow, Ph.D., Anthony Donn Professor of Ophthalmic Science (in Ophthalmology and Pathology) and professor of pathology, has received a $75,000 senior scientific investigator award from the Research to Prevent Blindness Foundation, the world’s leading voluntary health organization supporting eye research, to probe the environmental causes of age-related macular degeneration. Dr. Sparrow is one of 155 investigators given this honor since the award’s establishment in 1987.
