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2006 Award Recipients HonoredThe 2006 awards ceremony was held on Sunday, Nov. 12 during the opening plenary session of the ASTMH 55th Annual Meeting. See future editions of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene News for profiiles of award winners. Congratulations to the following award recipients:Recognition Award in Global Health Victoria P. McGovern On behalf of Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Research Triangle Park, N.C., USA ASTMH Past President Myron Levine presents the Recognition Award in Global Health to Victoria P. McGovern Harry Hoogstraal Medal For outstanding lifelong service to medical entomology. Mario Coluzzi Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy Richard M. Taylor Award For outstanding contributions to arbovirology. Charles Calisher Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., USA Joseph Augustin LePrince Medal In recognition of outstanding work in the field of malariology. Stephen L. Hoffman Sanaria Inc., Rockville, Md., USA Thomas E. Wellems National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md., USA LePrince Medal winner Thomas E. Wellems with Louis Miller Bailey K. Ashford Medal For distinguished work in tropical medicine. Jeremy Farrar University of Oxford, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Thomas A. Wynn National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md., USA Young Investigator Awards Following is a list of the recipients of the 2006 Young Investigator Awards. Honorable Mention
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Elsevier Student Book Award This award is designed to recognize excellence in clinically-oriented research presented by student (within six months of completing undergraduate or master's level training, including medical undergraduate degrees) or person in graduate medical training, of work submitted and presented (oral or poster) at the ASTMH annual meeting. The 2006 recipient is Sarah Landis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for her abstract, "Use of Ultrasound Technology to Investigate the Temporal Relationship between Maternal Malaria Infection and in utero Fetal Growth." 2006 Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowships Recipients The fellowship is designed to support medical students involved in clinical or research electives in tropical areas, and provide life-transforming experiences that will inspire careers dedicated to research, control and treatment of infectious tropical diseases that afflict the world’s poorest people. The 2006 recipients are:
2006 American Committee of Medical Entomology Travel Award Recipients Luca Facchinelli Univerity of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy Sonja Kjos Texas A&M University College Station, Tx., USA 2006 Honorary Members An honorary member is any individual, not an American citizen, who has made eminent contributions to some phase of tropical medicine or hygiene. Congratulations to the honorary member class of 2006: Michael Good The Queensland Institute of Medical Research Herston, Australia John Horton Tropical Projects Hitchin, United Kingdom 2006 Honorary Member John Horton 2006 Gorgas Memorial Institute Research Award This award is designed to enhance and facilitate the development of scientific linkages between Panama, nations of Central America, tropical and sub-tropical South America and the Caribbean Islands, Mexico and the United States and Canada through support of short-term travel for young research investigators from these regions. The 2006 recipients are: Kathleen Page Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Md., USA Mary Hayden University of Colorado Boulder, Colo., USA 2006 Burroughs Wellcome Fund – ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Disease This fellowships provides support for individuals to conduct research in tropical infectious diseases (and, on occasion, other clinical conditions unique to tropical medicine). Applications for the 2006 application cycle were reviewed during the 2005 annual meeting in Washington, D.C. The recipient is David Christiansen of the University of Utah. Pfizer Centennial Travel Award in Basic Science Tropical Disease Research The purpose of this award is to facilitate international collaboration in basic science aspects of tropical infectious diseases and to provide interested physicians or scientists the opportunity to obtain hands-on field experience in, in combination with laboratory studies of, parasitic, bacterial or viral infectious diseases in endemic developing countries. Recipients selected to receive funding in 2007 are: Erika Lamb Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Md., USA Scott Westenberger The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, Calif., USA Stephen Popper Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, Calif., USA 2006 ASTMH Travel Award Recipients 2006 Travel Awards Supported with funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Ibne Karim M. Ali Stanford University Stanford, Calif., USA Tran Chau Nguyen Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Clinical Research Unit HoChiMinh, Vietnam Rushina Cholera National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Bethesda, Md., USA Josue da Costa Lima, Jr. Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Joseph Fair Tulane University Fort Detrick, Md., USA Judith Easterbrook The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Md., USA Darryl Falzarano University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Yvette A. Girard University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Tx., USA Moses R. Kamya Makerere University Kampala, Uganda Rebekah Kent The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Md., USA Mark Kuniholm The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Md., USA Daniella Martins Federal University of Rio Grande del Norte Natal, Brazil Kriti Mittal Clemson University Clemson, S.C., USA Luciano Moreira Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou Belo Horizonte, Brazil Kija Ng'habi Ifakara Health Research and Development Center Morogoro, Tanzania Denise Njama-Meya Makerere University Kampala, Uganda Jonathan M. Sherman Mayo Medical School Rochester, Minn., USA Ratawan Ubalee Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS) Bangkok, Thailand Tsin Wen Yeo Menzies School of Health Research Darwin, Australia Karine Zevallos Villegas Universidad Peruana Cayeto Heredia Peru Iquitos, Peru
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