ASIS '99 Award of Merit Acceptance Speech

Van Wyk Award acceptance speech.

The Van Wyk Prize is the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society (LPWES)’s most prestigious award in recognition of outstanding career achievement by a member in the field of pediatric endocrinology. This award, established in honor of Judson J. Van Wyk, M.D., stands in tribute to an outstanding leader who has displayed a career of scientific excellence, leadership and dedication to the heal...

Merit Award Winners

Background: Metalloproteins are proteins capable of binding one or more metal ions, which may be required for their biological function, for regulation of their activities or for structural purposes. Metal-binding properties remain difficult to predict as well as to investigate experimentally at the whole-proteome level. Consequently, the current knowledge about metalloproteins is only partial....

Extramurally Speaking MERIT Award Winner

Sam Singer In their essay in October’s PLoS Medicine, Daniel Reidpath and Kit Yee Chan challenge the widely cited link between HIV-related stigma and the spread of the epidemic [1]. This is an important question, given the heavy emphasis on stigma in policies of the World Health Organization, the Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS, and other public health institutions, but in making their argum...

2008 AAOMPT John McM. Mennell Service Award Acceptance Speech.

Remarks on acceptance of the Proctor award.

Thank you, John, for your very gracious introductory remarks. I'm rather surprised by what you've been able to extract from sources I once thought to be loyal. Dr. Podos, officers and members of the Association, ladies and gentlemen: I am profoundly grateful to the Trustees of ARVO for having invited me to deliver the Proctor Lecture. It is a great privilege to honor the memory of Dr. Francis P...