2007 Awards for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology.

T he Award for Meritorious Contributions to Neuropathology recognizes a member who has made significant contributions to the advancement of knowledge in neuropathology and provided service to the American Association of Neuropathologists. The qualities of outstanding scientific achievement and service are embodied in the 2007 recipients, Drs. James M. Powers and Cedric S. Raine. The American Association of Neu-ropathologists (AANP) has awarded many, many meritorious service honors through the years to distinguished and deserving members, but few have embodied the essence of what the AANP stands for more than James Michael Powers. His scholarly contributions to neuropathology encompass investigative neuroscience, diagnosis, and teaching, and he has held every office and served on virtually every committee that the Association has to offer.American and German-American parents. He owes his gift for speaking and writing to his father and his critical thinking skills to his mother. He grew up in New York City, graduating from Cathedral Preparatory High School. Under that veneer of toughness honed in New York City during his early life is a person with a big heartYwilling to help not only his friends but anyone truly in need. He was awarded his bachelor`s degree with a major in biology from Manhattan College and his MD degree from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He stayed at South Carolina for his anatomic pathology training and then migrated back to New York for neuropathology training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine under Robert Terry. It was at Einstein, immersed in that strong neuropathology culture, that he formed 2-way streets of influence with Terry, others, developing a career-long interest and expertise in cerebral amyloid and demyelinating diseases. After his training at Einstein, Jim accepted his first faculty position at South Carolina and remained there for 15 years (1973Y1988). He worked with Doug Balentine there and continued his interest in diseases of myelin, especially adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).versity of Rochester since 1992. Through all these positions, Jim has sustained his interest in, and contributions to, demye-linating diseases. Perhaps his most important discovery was that of the adrenal lesions in Schilder disease, thus chang-ingpeoplès thinking about the disease and leading to the new designation of ALD (Shaumberg et al, 1972). With the appreciation that ALD is a peroxisomal disorder, Jim`s research blossomed further and was enhanced, but not overshadowed , by collaborations with the late Hugo Moser and Salvatore DiMauro, and, more recently, with Kirby …