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, Associate 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 associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
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