2012 Award to: Bahram H. Arjmandi, PhD, RD, Margaret A. Sitton Professor & Chair, Director for the Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging, Department of Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences, Florida State University
Dr. Steven Austad (L), Interim Director of the Barshop Institute, presents Dr. Arjamandi with the 2012 Dr. Edward J. Masoro Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Dr. Arjmandi was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physiology from 1991-1993. He studied under the mentorship of Dr. Dike Kalu and was part of the National Institute on Aging: Nutritional Gerontology Program.
2011 Award to: Esther E. Dupont-Versteegden, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Physical Therapy, College of Health Sciences, University of Kentucky
Dr. Arlan Richardson, Director of the Barshop Institute (L) and Dr. Edward J. Masoro (R), present Dr. Esther Dupont-Versteegden (C) with the 2011 Dr. Edward J. Masoro Distinguished Alumnus Award.Dr. Dupont-Versteegden was a graduate student in the Department of Physiology from 1989 - 1995. Under the mentorship of Dr. Roger J. McCarter, she studied the effects of Muscular Dystrophy on muscle with age. Today, Dupont-Versteegden is associate professor, Division of Physical Therapy, College of Health Science at the University of Kentucky where she investigates the effects of aging and disuse on skeletal muscle.
2009 Award to: Bruce S. Kristal, PhD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Arlan Richardson, Director of the Barshop Institute, presents Dr. Bruce Kristal the 2009 Dr. Edward J. Masoro Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Dr. Kristal performed his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Physiology from 1991 - 1994 in the laboratory of Dr. Byung Pal Yu. Today, Dr. Kristal is associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA. His major research foci are: 1) mitochondrial involvement in neurologic injury/neuroprotection; 2) personalized disease risk prediction using metabolomics and proteomics; and 3) high data-density informatics.
2008 Award to: Ahmad Heydari, PhD, Professor, Wayne State University
Dr. Arlan Richardson presents Dr. Ahmad Heydari of Wayne State University with the inaugural Barshop Institute Edward J. Masoro Distinguished Alumnus Award.Dr. Heydari studied under the mentorship of Dr. Richardson as a postdoctoral fellow from 1991-1995. His research focus was the effect of age and dietary restriction on the heat shock transcription factor. He is now professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
