Awards

Call for Award Nominations for 2010

Predoctoral award winners at EB2009 (click photos for full picture)

	1st place     Warren J. Huber III  Measurement of membrane-bound human heme oxygenase-1 activity using a chemically defined assay system.  Sponsor: Dr. Wayne L. Backes, Department of Pharmacology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, LA
	2nd place    Wei Zou   Sulindac metabolite and TNRa interaction in liver injury induced by sulindac and lipopolysaccaride in rats  Sponsor: Dr. Patricia E. Ganey, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Center for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, MI

Predoctoral award winners at EB2008

	1st place   Xiaomin Deng Role of TNF-converting enzyme in TNF production, neutrophil activation and liver injury in hepatotoxic interaction of lipopolysaccharide and ranitidine   Laboratory of Dr. Robert Roth, Michigan State University
	2nd place     Xi Yang A far upstream and genetically polymorphic alternative promoter drives expression of the human microsomal epoxide hydrolase (EPHX1) gene.   Laboratory of Dr. Curt Omiecinski, Pennsylvania State University
	3rd Place    Patrick Shaw Coexposure of mice to trovafloxacin and lipopolysaccharide results in a unique gene expression profile and liver injury dependent on early growth response-1 transcription factor activation   Laboratory of Dr. Robert Roth, Michigan State University

Call for Award Nominations

Please strongly encourage your graduate students and postdocs to submit abstracts to the meetings and to apply for the PostDoc and Graduate Student Best Abstract Awards for EB2009. The links for the Award applications are below; be sure to select the Toxicology Division.

Graduate Student Best Paper Award (GSBPA): http://www.aspet.org/public/awards/awards_fellowships.html#GSBPA 
Postdoc Best Paper Award: http://www.aspet.org/public/awards/awards_fellowships.html#PostDocSci

The prize for the single Postdoctoral Scientist award is $500, while prizes for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Graduate Student Best Paper Awards are $500, $300 and $200, respectively. A Graduate Student-Postdoc Best Abstract Competition and Student-Mentor Mixer will be held Sunday April 19, 6:30-8:30 pm, during which the posters will be judged, and winners identified. The winners will also be announced at the Division for Toxicology Business Meeting; plans are not yet final, but we hope to display the winning posters at the joint mixer to be held in combination with the Division for Drug Metabolism. This provides a large and interested audience for your students and postdocs, and is a great opportunity for them to network.

In addition, ASPET provides ASPET Graduate Student Travel Awards; these are due December 1, and can be found at: http://www.aspet.org/public/awards/GSTA.htm