| Rochester Toxicology Scholars |
| For exceptionally promising entering Toxicology Ph.D. students |
| 2007 Melissa Badding & Casey Manning |
| 2005 Samuel Caito |
| 2004 Jamie O’Brien |
| 2002 Sean Gehen |
| 2001 David Farrer
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| Kodak Toxicology Scholars |
| In recognition of promise for exceptional accomplishment in graduate study |
| 2007 Sarah Latchney |
| 2004 Rosemarie Marchan |
| 2003 Julian Castaneda |
| 2002 Tenea Watson |
| 2001 Geniece McCollum-Lehmann
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| U. of Rochester Sproull Fellowship |
| 2002 Tara Arndt (in the MD/PhD program)
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| Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Awards |
| 2009 Whitney Christian and Melissa Badding |
| 2008 Sarah Latchney and Betina Lew |
| 2007 Loretta Collins, Jamie O’Brien and Heather Ferguson |
| 2006 Peter Vitiello, Sean Gehen, Julian Castaneda, and Michael Laoisa, Ph.D. |
| 2005 Geniece McCollum-Lehmann, Rosemarie Marchan, and Elizabeth Ryan |
2008-2009
- Randi Benson – Graduate Student Travel Award to ATS meeting (2009)
- Kurt Bertram– National Eye Institute Travel Grant to the 2009 ARVO (Assoc. Research
in Vision and Ophthalmology) Annual Meeting. ($750)
- Samuel Caito – Travel award to attend 2009 SOT.
- Fanny Casado Travel award to attend 2009 SOT.
- Xianglu Han – SOT (Regulatory and Safety Evaluation Specialty Section) Travel Award
($2000) to attend 2009 SOT.
- Jennifer Head
- – DSE-BMS/Tox University of Rochester collaborative initiative pilot
research award. $15,000. Investigating the relationship between AhR,
iNOS and neutrophil recruitment during influenza A virus infection.
- Wrote a very nice review article on “The aryl hydrocarbon receptor as a
modulator of anti-viral immunity,” that was recently published in Biochemical
Pharmacology, and was featured in the NIEHS newsletter, the Environmental Factor, in May 2009
- Sarah Latchney – First place in the Graduate Student Poster Competition at the 25th
International Neurotoxicology Conference, with a
Travel Award to attend the International Neurotoxicology Association
(INA) meeting on June 7-12, 2009, in Jerusalem, Israel.
- Jamie O’Brien – 1st place in the Drug Discovery Toxicology Specialty Section’s Emil A.
Pfitzer Award at the SOT meeting in Baltimore.
- Jessie Shi – Travel award to attend 2009 SOT.
- Bethany Winans – URMC Graduate Alumni Fellowship Award, which is given to an entering graduate student
that exhibits promise for exceptional accomplishment in
graduate study.
POSTDOCS:
- Betina Lew
- Outstanding Postdoctoral Award for academic achievement, leadership and service,
from the Women in Toxicology Special Interest Group of SOT.
- Art Because — Seed the Scientist Award (to start new project entitled “In
Utero exposure to TCDD and development of breast cancer.” This pilot project also received
funds from EHSC at U of R to be conducted.
- Amber Rinderknecht – Eli Lilly Women and Minority Travel Award to attend the annual
Teratology Conference in June 2009 (Platform presentation).
- NSF student/postdoctoral travel award to attend the 11th International Congress on
Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects at the end May 2009.
2007-2008
- Jamie O’Brien – Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Foundation Pre-Doctoral
Fellowship: Bristol- Myers-Squibb Award, for meritorious research in Toxicology; and a University of Rochester Graduate Student Society Merit Award for research
- Heather Ferguson – Selected as coordinator of the SOT Tox Scholar Program.
- Fanny Casado – Travel Awards to attend: 1) the Endocrine Disruptor Conference, and 2) Program Debating Science 2007 Conference sponsored
by the NSF and the University of Montana. Also received Honorable Mention in an international Mondialogo Bioengineering Award competition.
- Fang (Sophia) Fang – Her SOT abstract was selected for platform presentation and she was selected Chairperson
for the SOT Pharmacokinetics/Disposition poster section.
- Fang (Sophia) Fang – also received a Travel Award to attend the SOT meeting.
- Jonathan Holz – Life Science Learning Center teaching award
- Sarah Latchney – 1st place (tied) at the 2008 GSS Merit award for Biomedical Sciences, for students in years 1-3.
- Na Li – Travel Award to the SOT meeting
- Sara Saperstein – Honorable mention for the Carl A. Smith Award at SOT in the Mechanisms Section
POSTDOCS:
- Zhengyu Yin – 2nd place in Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award for Meritorious Research presented by Mechanisms Specialty Section in SOT 2008
- Betina Lew, Ph.D.: – First Place, SOT Molecular Biology Specialty Section and Travel
Award, Hispanic Organization for Toxicologists
- Amber Rinderknecht – Her abstract was selected for a platform presentation at SOT, and she received
the Postdoctoral Award from the Inhalation and Respiratory Specialty Section.
- In May, Amber co-chaired a poster discussion group at the ATS Meeting.
- David Aremu – NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (F32 ES015965-01), N-Acetylcysteine as a Biomonitoring
Agent of Methylmercury Exposure
- Michael Laiosa – NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award funded by the NIEHS for his grant entitled:
Environmental Influence on T-cell Leukemia: Role of Notch and AHR signaling
- Loretta Collins – Travel Award to attend an NIEHS Conference on Endocrine Disruption
- Richard Stahlhut – Passed the Preventative Medicine Board Exam, scoring in the top 3% nationwide.
2006-2007
- Fanny Casado: – Travel Award to attend an Endocrine Disruptor Conference
- Heather Ferguson: – Travel Award to attend a Keystone Symposium on “Molecular Mechanisms of
Lung Fibrosis”, Tahoe City, CA, and the Student Research Award at the International Fibrosis Colloquium, Germany
- Peter Vitiello: – Gilbert B. Forbes prize in Pediatrics for his outstanding research
- Sean Gehen, Xianglu Han, John Norman, Randi Potter, Erik Rushton, Sara Saperstein, and
Zhengyu Yin: 2007 Society of Toxicology Travels Awards
- Michael Laiosa, Ph.D.: – Science Communication Fellow, Environmental Health News Foundation
- Sylvia Notenboom, Ph.D.: – Professor Dr. Joep van den Bercken Prize for best
thesis in the field of Toxicology awarded by the Dutch Toxicology Society
- Sean Gehen: – Invited to present at the Oxygen Society Annual Meeting
- John Norman: – The Neal Nathanson, M.D., ISNV (International Society for NeuroVirology) Pioneer in
NeuroVirology Lectureship Award, and the International Society for NeuroVirology Investigators in Training Travel Award
- Erik Rushton: – Invited to present at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Conference, Cambridge, MA,
and the Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference, Cincinnati, OH
2005-2006
- Elizabeth Ryan: – SOT Drug Discovery Specialty Section Award – 1st place
- Samuel Caito: – URMC Graduate Alumni Fellowship Award
- Rosemarie Marchan, Suzanne Krance, David Farrer, and Elizabeth Ryan: – SOT Travel Awards
- David Farrer: – Kosciuszko Foundation and Skalny Foundation Travel Grants to attend the 42nd
Annual Congress of the Societies of Toxicology in Krakow, Poland, Sept. 11-14, 2005
- Denise M. Ray: – Melville A. Hare Award for Excellence in Research from the Department of
Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester
- John Norman: – Chair of the SOT Student Advisory Committee, 2006-2007.
- John Norman: – Travel Grant to attend the 7th International Symposium on NeuroVirology sponsored
by the International Society for NeuroVirology
- Jamie O’Brien: – URMC Graduate Student Society Award - 3rd place
- Christine Palermo: – University of Rochester Medical Center Fenn Award for best thesis, and
SOT Mechanisms Specialty Section Award - 2nd place
- Geniece McCollum-Lehmann: – SOT Metals Specialty Section Award - 1st place
- Donna Lee: – SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Award - 2nd place
- Pheona Radcliffe, Russell Garrett and Mary Williamson: – SOT Travel Awards
- Amber Wyman, Frank Murante, and Dr. Tom Gasiewicz: – SOT Immunotoxicology Specialty Section Paper of the Year
Award (Laiosa MD, Wyman A, Murante FG, Fiore NC, Staples JE, Gasiewicz TA, Silverstone AE. Cell
proliferation arrest within intrathymic lymphocyte progenitor cells causes thymic atrophy mediated
by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor. J Immunol. 171(9):4582-4591, 2003)
- Elizabeth P. Ryan: – University of Rochester Graduate Student Society Research Merit Award, 1st place
- Geniece McCollum-Lehmann, Rosemarie Marchan, and Elizabeth Ryan: – Bristol-Myers Squibb Research Awards
2004-2005
- Geniece McCollum: – Received a prestigious 2-year fellowship from the PhRMA (Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America) Foundation, and a Travel Award to the 2004 Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium
- Amber Wyman: – SOT Travel Award.
- Gary Minsagage: – Received 2nd place for the Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award for meritorious research
- Elizabeth Ryan: – Michael G. Buonocore Award at the American Association for Dental
Research Annual Meeting held at the University of Rochester
- Jamie O’Brien: – University of Rochester Merritt and Marjorie Cleveland Fellowship
Award for outstanding potential for scientific contributions
2003
- Christine Palermo: – SOT Carcinogenesis Specialty Section Award ؎ 1st place prize
- Geniece McCollum: – SOT Metals Specialty Section Award – 2nd place prize
- Joe Zhou: – SOT Molecular Biology Specialty Section Award 3rd place
- Geniece McCollum and Joe Zhou: – SOT Travel Awards
- Gary Minsavage: – Travel award to attend the American Society for Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology meeting held in San Diego, CA
- Mary Williamson: – Abstract award at the 20th Annual Neurotoxicology Conference (Fall 2002)
- Rosemarie Marchan: – University of Rochester Irving Spar Fellowship Award in 2002
(an annual award to a deserving graduate student to recognize his/her promise for
exceptional accomplishment in graduate study)
- David Lehmann: – ALF Res. Fellowship Award, and a Sigma Xi Award
- Napoleon Alejandro: – NRSA grant
- Tracey Simmons-Willis: – NRSA grant
2002
- Donna Lee: – SOT travel award, Nashville
- Gary Minsavage: – Society of Toxicology travel award, Nashville
- Carissa Filbrandt: – SOT travel award, Nashville
- Christine Palermo: – SOT Carcinogenesis Specialty Section Award, 2nd place
- T. Simmons-Willis: – SOT Metals Specialty Section Postdoc Fellow Award, 2nd place
- Miriam Virgolini: – SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Postdoctoral Fellow Award, 1st place
- David Lehman: – American Liver Foundation Student Res Fellowship
- Kyung Hong: – American Thoracic Society Young Investigator Travel Award
- David Farrer: – Rochester Toxicology Scholar Award for an outstanding entering student
- Geniece McCollum and Tenea Watson: – Kodak Toxicology Scholar Award given to an outstanding student
2001
- Jennifer Ingram: – Paper of the Year for Teratology, 2000, Annual Meeting Teratology Society, Montreal
- Daniel Nazarenko: – Bradford Award for best poster, Annual Meeting Teratology Society, Montreal
- Stephen Dertinger: – Best poster award, Annual Meeting Teratology Society, Montreal
- Donna Lee: – Cleveland fellowship award, given to an outstanding first-year
doctoral student who exhibits an interest in neuroscience-related research
- Christopher Helt: – Gilbert Forbes prize in Pediatrics - for a student who
has achieved a high standard of scholarship and originality in research
- Ruth Reeves: – SOT travel award, San Francisco
- Junguo Zhou: – SOT travel award, San Francisco
- Tenea Watson: – Kodak Toxicology Scholar Award given to an outstanding student
- Stephanos Kyrkanides: – NIDCR RO3 “The role of neuronal function in craniofacial development” –Pilot Grant
2000
- Carissa Filbrandt: – Travel award, Gordon Conference on Developmental Toxicity
- Elizabeth Lipscomb: – SOT travel award, Philadelphia
- also: 1st Place, graduate student poster award, Spring meeting, Lake Ontario Chapter, SOT meeting
- Frank Murante: – 2nd Place, poster contest, Spring meeting, Lake Ontario Chapter, SOT
- Daniel Nazarenko: – Training Partnership Award, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, and Travel Award, Gordon Conference
- Geniece McCollum: – Kodak Toxicology Scholar Award given to an outstanding student
1999
- Dawn Clifton: – Travel award for the American Society for Microbiology meeting
- Yan Ding: – Society of Toxicology Travel Award, New Orleans
- Stephen Dertinger: – All expense award for Society of Toxicology meeting, New
Orleans – award was presented to him as finalist for SOT fellowship
- Jennifer Ingram: – Travel award for Annual Teratology meeting
- Thomas Lee: – American Liver Foundation Student Research fellowship
- Elizabeth Lipscomb: – Award for best platform presentation, Lake Ontario Chapter, SOT
- Daniel Nazarenko: – Travel award for University of Wisconsin-Madison, Developmental
Toxicology and Developmental Biology symposium
- also: Best poster award at University of Wisconsin-Madison symposium
- also: Travel award, Gordon Conference
- also: Invited presentation, US EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC
- also: SOT Travel Award, New Orleans
- Sang-ki Park: – SOT Travel Award, New Orleans
- Ray Rancourt: – 1st Place poster presentation, Lake Ontario Chapter, Society of Toxicology meeting
- Jeff Willey: – 1st Place paper, Lake Ontario Chapter, Society of Toxicology meeting
- Penny Rice: – Travel award, Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society
1998
- Clarice Chen: – Society of Toxicology Travel Award, Seattle
- Frank Murante: – SOT Travel Award, Seattle
- Daniel Nazarenko: – Travel award, Gordon Conference
- Ray Rancourt: – Best poster presentation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Lake Ontario Chapter, SOT
- Tenea Watson: – Senatorial Scholarship from Maryland State Scholarship Administration
1997
- Clarice Chen: – Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar Award, American Association for
Cancer Research Meeting, San Diego, CA
- Jennifer Ingram: – James G. Wilson Award for the best research presentation by a
graduate student at Annual Meeting of the Teratology Society
- Amy Lavin: – Society of Toxicology Travel Award, Cincinnati
- Stephanie Powlin: – SOT Travel Award, Cincinnati
- Christina Zuch: – SOT Travel Award, Cincinnati
- Becky Brockel: – NRSA - "Mechanisms of lead-induced attention deficits"
- also: SOT Neurotoxicology Specialty Section Postdoctoral Award
- Christopher Stodgell: – NARSAD Young Investigator Award - “Mutations of early
development genes as an etiology of autism”
- T. Scott Thurmond: – NRSA - "The effect of TCDD on murine B lymphocytes"
To obtain an application or more information
about this program, please contact:
Dr. Ned Ballatori, Director
Toxicology Training Program
Department of Environmental Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York 14642
Phone: 585-275-0262
FAX: 585-256-2591
E-mail:
Ned_Ballatori@urmc.rochester.edu
or
Christine Gramza, Program Coordinator
Phone: 585-275-6702
FAX: 585-256-2591
E-mail:
Christine_Gramza@urmc.rochester.edu |
Revised October 9 2009 (vgl & gbi)
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