In Brief
Boger Wins Paul Janssen Award
Professor Dale Boger has won the Paul Janssen Award for
Creativity in Organic Synthesis, a prize given on a biannual
basis at the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium to a chemist
under the age of 50 who has made a significant contribution
to the field of organic synthesis in the broadest sense. Boger
will give a lecture at the symposium in July.
Boger (B.Sc., University of Kansas, Lawrence; Ph.D., Harvard
University) was a member of the faculty at the University
of Kansas and Purdue University before joining the faculty
of TSRI in 1991 as the Richard and Alice Cramer Professor
of Chemistry. Boger is internationally recognized for his
work in organic synthesis, medicinal chemistry, heterocyclic
chemistry, natural products total synthesis and biological
evaluation, synthetic methodology development including combinatorial
chemistry, and bioorganic chemistry and has made seminal contributions
to the understanding of DNA-drug interactions and small molecule
stabilization or disruption of protein-protein interactions
involved in signal transduction.
Former recipients of the Janssen Award include TSRI investigators
K. Barry Sharpless and K. C. Nicolaou.
Ginsberg Wins Earl P. Benditt Award
Professor Mark H. Ginsberg has won the 2003 Earl P. Benditt
Research Career Award from the North American Vascular Biology
Organization (NAVBO) for his seminal work on platelet receptor
function and integrin biology.
Ginsberg (M.D., State University of New York, Downstate
Medical Center) has been with Scripps since 1975, which he
joined after his medical internship, residency, and training
in rheumatology at the University of Chicago. According to
NAVBO, "Throughout his years at Scripps, Dr. Ginsberg made
many important discoveries that have dramatically advanced
our thinking of cell-cell interactions and cellular signaling
through the family of integrin receptors." A founding fellow
of the American College of Rheumatology, Ginsberg is on the
editorial boards of the "Journal of Biological Chemistry,"
"Molecular Biology of the Cell," and the "Journal of Cell
Science" and has been recognized with many honors and awards.
Damon Runyon Fellowship Awarded to TSRI Postdoc
Research Associate Sean Ryder of the Williamson lab has been
awarded a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellowship, a three-year
award made to outstanding young scientists conducting theoretical
and experimental research that is relevant to the study of
cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies,
and prevention. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
awards only about 60 such fellowships each year from a pool
of over 450 proposals. Ryder's project is entitled, "Biochemical
and structural characterization of a protein-RNA complex that
controls Caenorhabditis elegans sexual identity."
Vendor Show, Free Samples, Raffle
The 2002 Vendor Show will be held on Thursday, May 23,
from 9:30 AM to 3 PM on the TSRI campus in front of the Immunology
building and in the atriums of the Beckman, Molecular Biology,
and Immunology buildings. Throughout the day, representatives
from over 75 scientific and biotech companies will be available
at the four locations to answer questions about their products,
provide literature, give demonstrations, and pass out free
samples. All vendor show attendees are invited to return a
raffle form with eight signatures (two from each of the four
exposition locations) to the Jamba Juice stand in the next
to the "Flame of Knowledge" sculpture in front of the Molecular
Biology Building. While supplies last, these signed raffle
forms can be exchanged for a free Jamba Juice. All signed
raffle tickets will be entered into a grand-prize raffle for
a $200 gift certificate for the University Town Center mall.
A runner-up will win a $50 gift certificate. Raffle forms
will be mailed to TSRI employees next week. The annual event
is sponsored and organized by TSRI's Society of Fellows, which
will also be providing free coffee and pastries. For more
information, contact Ted Foss, tfoss@scripps.edu,
or visit the Society of Fellows web
page.
TB Screenings, Hepatitis B Immunizations, and Serum Draws
On Monday, May 13, Wednesday, May 15, and Friday, May 17,
personnel from Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group will be on-site
to conduct TB screenings, Hepatitis B immunizations, and serum
draws. The clinics will be conducted at the Administrative
Offices (3301 North Torrey Pines Court) on the P1 level from
11 AM to 2 PM. No appointments are necessary. TB screening
requires a 48 to 72 hour follow-up. Individuals receiving
the TB screen on Monday will need to return on Wednesday;
individuals screened on Wednesday, will need to return on
Friday. Initiation of the TB screening process will not be
available on Friday, but Hepatitis B immunization and serum
draws will be. To learn more about these programs, see the
Environmental Health & Safety
Occupational Medicine web page which includes a map and
patient information sheets.
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