Slide 1 - URC

The Office of the Provost and the University

Research Committee welcome you to the 2007

Levy Awards and the inaugural Emory University

Faculty Awards Recognition Ceremony

Briefly outline the role of the University Research Committee in promoting faculty development and scholarshipAcknowledge the faculty who received URC awards in the past yearPresent the 2007 Levy Awards

Recognize Emory faculty who received prestigious academic awards within the past year

The Program

At its meeting in January, 1939, The Emory Chapter of the American Association of University Professors agreed unanimously to adopt a report of the Committee on Faculty Research, and voted to submit it to (then) Dean Goodrich C. White, vice president of the University. The Committee “concluded emphatically” that “research is not incompatible with good teaching” and does not compromise the ideal of the University “to facilitate mental and spiritual growth of its students…in service to God and man.”Yet the Committee also concluded that there was “shocking little productive research among members of the faculty…”

A little bit of URC history(courtesy of David Pacini)

To address this insufficiency, the Committee recommended the creation of a “University Research Council…that would administer a fund, as large as possible, annually appropriated by the University for the promotion of faculty research.”

Apart from archival evidence of some preliminary cooperative efforts with Agnes Scott College in 1941 (under the name of the “University Center Research Committee”), the work of the University Research Committee appears to have begun in its own right in 1943. It approved grants totaling $1019. In May of 1944, the University Research Committee issued its invitation to faculty to apply for “grants in aid” for the second year, with a reported budget of $1500.

By 1947, the Committee expressed concern over the technical level of applicant submissions, and agreed to “encourage better form in written applications.”

Fast forward sixty yearsThe Emory University Research Committee is composed of sub-committees that review applications in five general academic areas:

• Biological and Health Sciences (Machelle Pardue, Chair)• Humanities (Walter Reed, Chair)• Social Sciences (Doug Bowman, Chair)• Math and Natural Sciences (Laura Finzi, Chair)• Visual and Performing Arts (Lori Teague, Chair)

Just in the past year (fall of 2006 and spring of 2007) the Emory University Research Committee awarded sixty academic enrichment and career development grants to faculty members following a competitive two-tier review process.

By 1947, the Committee expressed concern over the technical level of applicant submissions, and agreed to “encourage better form in written applications.”

10/15/07

The Office of the Provost and the

University Research Committee are proud to honor those faculty

who have received URC awards within the past

year

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Eugene AgichteinAssistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer ScienceEmory CollegeAdaptive Extraction of Medical Information from Text Data

Deepika BahriAssociate Professor, English; Director of Asian StudiesEmory CollegeRace and Hybridity in Postcolonial Literature & Film

Keith BerlandAssociate Professor, PhysicsEmory CollegeInvestigating Amyloid Fiber Nucleation Using Fluorescence Lifetime Microscopy

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Simon BlakeyAssistant Professor, Organic ChemistryEmory CollegeNew Catalysts for Asymmetric C-H Bond Animation

Julia C. BullockAssistant Professor of Japanese Language and LiteratureRussian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), Emory CollegeWomen on Women: Negotiating Femininity in Postwar Japan, 1960-1980 Guangping ChenAssistant Professor, MedicineSchool of MedicineMDM2 mediated degradation of the UT-A1 urea transporter

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Inyeong ChoiAssistant Professor, PhysiologySchool of MedicineStudy of the interaction between pH-regulating NBCn1 and pH-sensitive NMDA receptorsTimothy Q. DuongAssociate Professor, Neurology / Biomedical Engineering; Director, Magnetic Resonance Research, School of MedicineImaging Technologies to Characterize Salvageable Tissues in a Monkey Stroke Model

Michael Alfred EnsslinAssistant Professor, Cell BiologySchool of MedicineFunctional Studies of SED1 in Immortalized and Primary Mammary Epithelial Cells

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Hernan FeldmanAssistant Professor, SpanishEmory CollegeSketching the Nation: Comics and the Infamous Decade in Argentina (1930-1943)Thomas E. FrankProfessor, Religious Leadership and Administration; Director, Methodist StudiesCandler School of TheologyAmerica’s Historic Religious Buildings: A Cultural Heritage in PerilAndrew FrancisAssistant Professor, EconomicsEmory CollegeEvaluating Affirmative Action in Brazil

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Monique M. Hennink and Deborah A. McFarlandAssociate Professors, Hubert Department of Global HealthRollins School of Public HealthPathways to Improve Health Conditions through Microfinance Schemes Lennart LogbergAssociate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory MedicineSchool of MedicineLipocalins: Tools for Probing Mechanisms of Allergy

Edward LinAssistant Professor, Surgery; Director, Emory Endosurgery UnitSchool of MedicineVisceral Adiposity and Lipoprotein Oxidative Stress

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Amy LeeAssistant Professor, PharmacologySchool of MedicineRegulation of Calcium Channels in the Heart

Adam I. MarcusAssistant Professor, Hematology and Oncology; Director, Cell Imaging and Microscopy Core, Winship Cancer Institute, School of MedicineInvestigating the tumor suppressor LKB1 in lung cancer invasionDavid C. NeujahrAssistant Professor, Surgery / Division of Transplantation; Scientific Director, Cell and Tissue Processing LaboratorySchool of MedicineA Pilot Study of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Regulatory T-Cells in Lung Transplant Recipients

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Elizabeth Carson Pastan (in collaboration with Stephen D. White)Associate Professor, Art HistoryEmory CollegeThe Bayeux Tapestry: An Early Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Pictorial NarrativeAndres PelaezAssistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineSchool of MedicineThe Effect of Donor Alcohol Use on Incidence of PGF after Lung TransplantationSally A. RadellAssociate Professor and Director of DanceEmory CollegePeople Like Us: A Choreographic Reflection on Rituals, Popular Culture and Everyday Living

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Ivan RasnikAssistant Professor, PhysicsEmory CollegeMolecular Mechanisms of HCV helicase: effects of membrane anchoring on protein dynamics

Subhabrata SanyalAssistant Professor, Cell BiologySchool of Medicinep38 Kinase regulation of learning and neural plasticity in Drosophila

Dipali SharmaAssistant Professor, Hematology/OncologySchool of MedicineAdiponectin: Novel negative regulator of mammary tumorigenesis

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Chanley SmallAssistant Research Professor, EpidemiologyRollins School of Public HealthPolymorphisms in the Inhibin Beta Subunit and Reproductive Function

Ashish SoodAssistant Professor, MarketingGoizueta Business SchoolTechnological Evolution in the Pharmaceutical Market

Debra SpitulnikAssociate Professor, AnthropologyEmory CollegeMedia, Citizenship, and Political Engagement in the Lives of Young American Adults

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Brent StrawnAssociate Professor, Old TestamentCandler School of TheologyReasonable Doubt? Rethinking Intention in Ancient Near Eastern and Israelite Law and Literature

Roy L. SutliffAssistant Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care MedicineSchool of MedicineMechanisms of HIV-1 mediated Pulmonary Hypertension

Vinod ThouraniAssistant Professor, SurgerySchool of MedicineNovel Radio Frequency Pressure Transducer for Evaluating Mitral Valve Repair

URC Grant Recipients Fall 2006 Jeannie VisootsakAssistant Professor, GeneticsSchool of MedicineNeurodevelopmental Outcome in Children with Down Syndrome and Congenital Heart Defects

Li XiongAssistant Professor, Computer ScienceEmory CollegeHIDE: An Integrated and Adaptive Health Information DE-identification Framework

URC Grant Recipients Spring 2007

Linda ArmstrongSenior Lecturer, Visual Arts Program/Art HistoryEmory CollegeCollecting

Kristen BurasAssistant Professor, Division of Educational StudiesEmory CollegeCan a City School the Nation? Reconstruction, Race, and Resistance in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Heather BloomAssistant Professor, Internal Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine School of MedicineThe impact of age and co-morbidity on mortality benefit from internal cardioverter-defibrillators


John CarewAssistant Professor, Rollins School of Public Health/Biostatistics:School of Medicine/RadiologyNeuroimaging Biomarkers in ALS: A Longitudinal Study of Diffusion Tensor Imaging

Shoshana FelmanWoodruff Professor, Department of Comparative LiteratureEmory CollegeLiterature on Trial, Trial as Literature: Oscar Wilde Revisited

Thomas FlynnProfessor, Department of PhilosophyEmory CollegeSartre Resartus: An Intellectual Biography of Jean-Paul Sartre


Dean JonesProfessor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical CareSchool of MedicineMethionine oxidation in oxidative stress

John LucchesiProfessor, Department of BiologyEmory CollegeChromatin modifications and DNA replication

James MeltonProfessor, Department of HistoryEmory CollegeFrom the Alps to the Low country: Transatlantic Lives of Thomas Geschwandel, 1693-1761


Rudolf MakkreelCharles Howard Candler Professor, Department of PhilosophyEmory CollegeHermeneutics and History

Carlos MorenoAssistant Professor, Division of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineSchool of MedicineThe Role of Rap1 signaling in Prostate Cancer Metastasis

Michael OwensAssistant Professor, Department of Political ScienceEmory CollegeEx-Prisoners as Citizens and Neighbors: Public Attitudes towards Ex-Prisoner Reentry in Atlanta


Vladimir OlikerProfessor, Department of Mathematics and Computer ScienceEmory CollegeA variational approach to problems of optic design of freeform surfaces with prescribed irradiance

Limin PengAssistant Professor, Department of BiostatisticsRollins School of Public HealthFlexible regression methods for censored survival data

Dan ReiterProfessor, Department of Political ScienceEmory CollegeDeterminants of Peace Duration Following Interstate Wars


John RobackAssociate Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory MedicineSchool of MedicineVaccination-enhanced donor lymphocyte infusion after BMTLaura Salazar and Delia LangAssistant Professors, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health EducationRollins School of Public HealthA Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Gender Based Violence and HIV Risk

Byeongwoon SongAssistant Professor, Department of PediatricsSchool of MedicineMechanisms of the Antiviral Activity of TRIM5alpha


Qiang ShenAssistant Professor, NeuroscienceYerkes National Primate Research CenterNovel Speckle and Optical Imaging Technologies for Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy

Vin TangprichaAssistant Professor, Department of MedicineSchool of MedicineOptimizing Bone Health and Vitamin D Status in Cystic Fibrosis Patients

Sriaman VenkataramanAssistant Professor, Marketing DepartmentGoizueta Business SchoolExhibitor Level Model of Movie Demand


Irwin WaldmanProfessor, Department of PsychologyEmory CollegeGene-based associations of candidate genes with ADHD-relevant phenotypes

Eric WeeksAssociate Professor, Department of PhysicsEmory CollegeCharacterizing surface viscosities at “difficult” interfaces

Lary WalkerResearch Professor, NeuroscienceYerkes National Primate Research CenterExogenour induction of Alzheimer Ab-pathology in Transgenic mice

URC/A-CTSI Translational Research Award Recipients Fall

2007

Fernando HolguinAssistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical CareSchool of MedicineAirway adipokines and alveolar macrophage: a mechanistic link for obesity and asthma severity

Debra HouryAssistant Professor, Department of Emergency MedicineSchool of MedicineEarly Intervention Following Human Trauma

URC/A-CTSI Translational Research Award Recipients Fall

2007 Claudia TestaAssistant Professor, Department of NeurologySchool of MedicineEssential Tremor Disease Mechanisms

Limin PengAssistant Professor, Department of BiostatisticsRollins School of Public HealthFlexible regression methods for censored survival data* Supplement to URC award in the spring

The Levy Awards were established to recognize outstanding scientific research contributions of Emory faculty members. Albert E. Levy, now deceased, had a daughter and a grandson, both of who became scientists. Mr. Levy’s grandson pursued a career in biomedical research at Emory.

The Levy Awards

Although he was a businessman, Mr. Levy admired and supported the scientific efforts of his family members and always encouraged the performance of high quality scientific research. In his honor, his daughter has provided resources designated for recognition of faculty at Emory who have contributed effectively to the advancement of scientific knowledge.

The Levy Awards

Thus, the Levy Awards for Excellence in Scientific Research were established. Each year, awards for junior and senior faculty are selected by the University Research Committee to recognize outstanding research publications within the past year.

The Levy Awards

2002 Levy Award Recipients Dr. Krishnna M. Bhat “Slit signaling promotes the terminal asymmetric division of neural precursor cells in the Drosophila CNS” Development 128:3161;2001. Dr. Harriet L. Robinson “Control of a mucosal challenge and prevention of AIDS by a multiprotein DNA/MVA vaccine” Science 292:69;2001. 2003 Levy Award Recipients Dr. Andreas Fritz “Concerted action of two dlx paralogs in sensory placode formation” Development 129: 3127; 2002.Dr. Rafi Ahmed “Memory CD8+ T cell differentiation: initial antigen encounter triggers a developmental program in naïve cells” Nature Immunology 2: 415; 2001.

2004 Levy Award Recipients Dr. Paul Wade “MTA3, an Mi-2/NuRD Comples Subunit, Regulates an Invasive Growth Pathway in Breast Cancer” Cell 113: 207-219; 2003. Dr. Dr. Barry Shur“Identification of Mouse Sperm SED1, a Bimotif EGF Repeat and Discoidin-Domain Protein Involved in Sperm-Egg Binding” Cell 114: 405-417; 2003. 2005 Levy Award Recipients Dr. Shoichiro Ono “Tropomyosin Inhibits ADF/Cofilin-dependent Actin Filament Dynamics ” Cell 156: 1065-1076; 2002.Dr. Barbara J. Stoll“Neurodevelopmental and Growth Impairment Among Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants with Neonatal Infection ” JAMA 292: 2357-2368; 2004.

2006 Levy Award Recipients Dr. William Kelly“Meiotic pairing and imprinted X chromatin assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans” Nature Genetics 36: 100-105: 2004 and “A conserved chromatin architecture marks and maintains the restricted germ cell lineage in worms and flies” Devel. Cell 5: 747-757; 2003 Dr. Marc Chimowitz“Comparison of Warfarin and Aspirin for Symptomatic Intracranial Arterial Stenosis” New England Journal of Medicine 352: 1305-1316; 2005

The University Research Committee is

proud to honor this year’s Levy Award

recipients

Dr. Gilbert Kersh (Junior faculty recipient)“Interplay between RORt, Egr3, and E proteins controls proliferation in response to pre-TCR signals” Immunity 24: 813-826; 2006 Dr. Jack Arbiser (Senior faculty co-recipient)“Overexpression of Akt converts radial growth melanoma to vertical growth melanoma” Journal of Clinical Investigation 117:3:719-729; 2007Dr. Diana Robertson (Senior faculty co-recipient) “The neural processing of moral sensitivity to issues of justice and care” Neuropsychologia 45: 755-766; 2007

2007 Levy Award Recipients

Dr. Gilbert Kersh“Interplay between RORt, Egr3, and E proteins controls proliferation in response to pre-TCR signals” Immunity 24: 813-826; 2006

2007 Levy AwardJunior Faculty Recipient

Dr. Jack Arbiser“Overexpression of Akt converts radial growth melanoma to vertical growth melanoma” Journal of Clinical Investigation 117:3:719-729; 2007

2007 Levy AwardSenior Faculty Co-

Recipient

J. Clin. Invest. 117:719-729 (2007).

Overexpression of Akt converts radial growth melanoma to vertical growth melanoma

Mutant p53 Loss of p16ink4aNonmelanoma skin cancer Melanoma

Akt SuperoxidePhospholipase D Protein kinase C

NFkB activation NFkB activation

Resistance to chemotherapyResistance to radiationEvasion of the immune systemHonokiol NADPH oxidase

inhibitors

Why is “alphabet soup” important

• The ability to determine which tumor suppressor is lost in cancer can already be performed by pathologists

• Loss of a tumor suppressor gene predicts signaling pathways

• Drugs can be designed to block signaling pathways in both kind of tumors

• These drugs are being developed in our lab

2007 Levy AwardSenior Faculty Co-

RecipientDr. Diana Robertson“The neural processing of moral sensitivity to issues of justice and care” Neuropsychologia 45: 755-766; 2007

Clint Kilts accepting the award on behalf of Diana Robertson

The Office of the Provost and the

University Research Committee also wish to

acknowledge Emory faculty members who

have earned major academic awards or

honors within the past year

Susan AllenRollins School of Public HealthAtlanta Business Chronicle’s 2007 Community Outreach Hero

Larry Barsalou Professor of Psychology Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society

Kenneth Bernstein Distinguished Service Professor, Pathology 2007 Basic Research Prize from the American Heart Association

Emory faculty who have received academic awards and honors in the

past year

Jay Berkelhamer Department of PediatricsPresident of the American Academy of Pediatrics

William Branch Division Director, Internal Medicine President of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare

Jeanne Charles Rehabilitation Medicine Gayle G. Arnold Award for Best Scientific Paper, from the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

Otis Brawley GA Cancer Center for Excellence, Grady Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2007 Military Hero Distinction

Jo Ann Dalton Edith F. Honeycutt Chair of Adult and Elder Care Distinguished Alumna for Duke University School of Nursing 2007


past year

Carlos del RioProfessor, Infectious DiseasesMarion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization

Frans de WaalProfessor of Psychology100 World’s Most Influential People by Time Magazine 2007Sandra Dunbar Charles Howard Candler Professor of Cardiovascular Nursing Appointed to the American Heart Association Flu Task Force, Emory Heart and Vascular Center Board, and as a faculty counselor of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board

Christopher FlowersHematology/OncologyAmerican Society of Hematology first Amos Faculty Development Award


past year

William FoegeRollins School of Public HealthThe Lautenberg Award from the University of New Jersey Medical and Dental School for outstanding contributions in public health and the Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health from the New York Academy of MedicineRichard D. FreerRobert Howell Hall Professor of LawAppointed to the Advisory Board for LexisNexis Law School PublishingJim GrimsleyDirector of Creative WritingMid-Career Author Award from Saints and Sinners Literary Festival

Sam GandyDirector of Emory Center for Neurodegenerative DiseasesChair of the National Medical and Scientific Advisory Council of the Alzheimer’s Association


past year

Jennifer L. GoochNephrology/VA Medical Center AtlantaPresidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering

Robert HatcherProfessor of Gynecology/Obstetrics2007 Kenneth J. Ryan Physician Leadership Award from Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health

Craig HillProfessor of ChemistryDistinguished Fellow of the Victoria Institute of Chemical Sciences (Australia)James M. HughesProfessor, Infectious DiseasesGen-Probe Joseph Award, by the American Society for Microbiology


past year

Arthur KellermanSchool of Medicine/Rollins School of Public Health2007 Wiegenstein Leadership Award from the American College of Emergency Physicians

Fadlo KhuriHematology/OncologyElected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation

Athena KourtisSchool of Medicine, Pediatrics2007 Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award from the Federal Executive BoardChris LarsenCarlos and Marguerite Mason Professor of Surgery2007 Thomas E. Starzl Prize in Surgery and Immunology by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine


past year

Deborah LipstadtDorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust StudiesAppointed a member of the United States delegation to a conference Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding, Bucharest, Romania

Steve NowickiProfessor of Psychology2007 Outstanding Mentor Award from the Southeastern Psychological AssociationRuth ParkerGeneral Internal MedicineLeadership Atlanta 2007

Walter OrensteinProfessor, Infectious Diseases2007 Dr. Charles Merieux Award for Achievement in Vaccinology and Immunology, from The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases


past year

Susmita ParasharGeneral Internal MedicineTrudy Bush Fellowship for Cardiovascular Research in Women’s Health/ and Travel grant to attend American Society of Clinical Investigation and American Physicians Joint meeting

Larry PickeringProfessor of Pediatrics2007 Pediatric Infectious Disease Society’s Distinguished Physician AwardJohn D. PuskasChief of Cardiac Surgery, Emory Crawford LongJ. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Award from Society of Thoracic Surgeons for top-ranked paper in Adult Cardiac Surgery

Jeffrey SalomoneChief of General Surgery and Surgical Infectious Disease, GradyAtlanta Business Chronicle’s 2007 Physician Hero Award


past year

Dipali SharmaDepartment of Hematology and OncologyMary K. Ash Foundation for Breast Cancer Research

Brent A. StrawnCandler School of TheologyCatholic Biblical Association 20,000 Award for Research

Lynn SiblyDirector, Center for Research on Maternal and Newborn Survival, School of Nursing2007 Atlanta Business Chronicle Allied Health Professional Hero

Lisa TedescoVice Provost for Academic Affairs/Graduate Studies and Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences2007 Distinguished Service Award from the American Dental Education Association


past year

Steven TraynelisProfessor, Department of PharmacologyJacob Javits Neuroscience Award from NINDS 2007

Stephen T. WarrenWilliam P. Timmie Professor and Chair of Human Genetics, Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry2007 Outstanding Alumni Award from Michigan State, Spring 2007

Natasha TretheweyEmory College, Creative Writing ProgramPulitzer Prize for Native Guard

Arthur YanceySchool of Medicine, Emergency Medicine2007 Jeff Clawson Leadership Award from the National Academies of Emergency Dispatch


past year

Let’s celebrate!