Scientist Cited For Research On Blood Cells

Eugene Cronkite, of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., received the 17th Robert de Villiers Award from the Leukemia Society of America in recognitionof his research on hematopoiesis, the process by which the cellular elements of blood are formed. Cronkite, the recipient of a medal and a cash prize of $10,000, has been a member of the Brookhaven staff since 1954. He earmed his A.B. degree in 1935 and his M.D. in 1940, both from Stanford University. In the 1960s, Cronkite developed the technique of irradiating blood outside the living body as a treatment for chronic leukemia. He currently is studying the toxic effects of AZT, an anti-AIDS drug. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, funded by the government of West Germany, has awarded a 1989 Humboldt Prize to Dick Manson, a professor of physics at Clemson University in Clemson, S.C. The award will allow Manson to travel to West Germany for the next three summers to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute in Gottingen and the Nuclear Research Institute in Julich. Manson, who has taught at Clemson since 1969, has studied the nature of surfaces of materials ranging from metals to semiconductors. He plans to scatter low-energy atomic waves onto various surfaces and monitor the reactions. Aaron Lemonick has been appointed deputy director for adminis- trative operations at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab in Princeton, N.J., for a two-year term, beginning in January. Lemonick, who retired as dean of faculty at Princeton this summer, joined the university in 1961 as an associate professor of physics. From 1967 to 1969, he served as associate chair of the physics department. He also served as dean of the graduate school (1969 to 1973), prior to his tenure as dean Lemonick, who will continue to teach physics, earned his M.A. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1954 at Princeton. The University of Missouri System Board of Curators has named Daniel W. Armstrong a Curators’ Professor of Chemistry. Armstrong, who teaches chemistry at the university in. Rolla, Mo., is a specialist in liquid chromatography and separations as applied in pharmaceutical and biomedical research. Armstrong, the creator of a process for separating optical isomers, is the author of more than 100 research papers. He received both his M.S. degree in chemical oceanography and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Texas A&M University, College Station. Mark Mayer of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in Bethesda, Md., received this year’s Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience for his work on glutamate, the nerve-signaling amino acid said to be critical for memory function. Mayer’s research on glutamate receptors and their relation to calcium has led to a better understanding of how nerve cells in the brain are damaged when oxygen is restricted. Mayer, who received the award at the society’s meeting in Phoenix, had previously been awarded a Harkness Fellowship and a Beit Memorial Fellowship. He began his work at NICHD in 1983 through an award by the Royal Society of Great Britain. Donald S. Clark has been named vice president of product development at Houston Biotechnology Inc. (HB I), which develops drugs for the prevention and treatment of eye and brain disorders. In the newly created position, Clark will be responsible for the development of HBI’s pharmaceutical products and for regulatory affairs. Prior to joining HBI, Clark was the director of pharmaceutical development at Allergan Pharmaceuticals, based in Irvine, Calif. Clark received both his undergraduate degree in physical biochemistry/chemistry and his doctoral degree in physical biochemistry from Louisiana State University. He has worldwide patent applications pending on potential ophthalmic products. Meanwhile. another HBI official, Alexandra J. Baran, has been appointed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s advisory committee on research programs, which establishes policy pertaining to grant programs administered by the coordinating board. Baran, who is HBI’s director of academic affairs and intellectual property, coordinates the company’s extramural research aetivities and functions as its patent and research liaison. Warren Moos, director of the Center for Astrophysical Sciences and professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has been selected to lead a team of scientists developing a new ultraviolet satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Lyman-FUSE satellite will be designed to probe the hot gas in galactic halos and disks, as well as the interstellar clouds of the Milky Way. Moos, a specialist in the design of novel spectroscopic instrumentation, has published more than 190 papers in the fields of quantum electronics, solid-state physics, space physics, and plasma physics. The department of applied sciences at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., has announced the appointment of Leon Petrakis as chairman. Petrakis, who has more than 25 years experience as an industrial chemist, will succeed Bernard Manowitz, who will return to research within the department. In the past, Petrakis, who will oversee the work of 200 employees, has researched the use of spectroscopic. techniques to look at problems in the areas of energy and the environment. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Petrakis has worked in both academia and industry, most recently as a research fellow for San Francisco-based Chevron corp.

Scientist Cited For Research On Blood Cells

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