Honors and Awards

Hal E. Broxmeyer, Ph.D.

  • NIH Predoctoral Training Grant, 1972
  • NYU Founder's Day Award, 1973
  • Mellor Award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1976 & 1977
  • Special Fellow Award, Leukemia Society of America, 1976-1978
  • Scholar Award, Leukemia Society of America, 1978-1983
  • Boyer Award, Laboratory Investigation, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1983
  • Board of Scientific Advisors, Biocyte Corporation, 1983
  • Merit Award, National Cancer Institute, 1987-1995
  • President, International Society for Experimental Hematology, 1990/1991; Present-Elect 1989/1990; Past-President 1991/1992.
  • Variety Club Heart Award, 1992 & 1993
  • Gold Medal of City of Paris for Research Accomplishments from Mayor, Jacques Chirac, 1993
  • E. Donnal Thomas Lecture, FredHutchinsonCancerCenter, 1994
  • Keynote Address, Japan Society Clinical Hematology, Tokyo, 1994
  • Board of Scientific Advisors, CellPro, Inc., 1994-1996
  • World of Difference Award for Outstanding Achievements in Healthcare Delivery, from the Indiana Health Industry Forum, October 23, 1997
  • Board of Scientific Advisors, ViaCell Corp., 1997
  • Chairperson, NIH Hematology II Study Section, 1997-2000
  • Chairperson, Board of Scientific Councilors, and member, external advisory committee, National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI), 1998-Present
  • Board of Directors, National Disease Research Interchanges (NDRI), 1998-Present
  • Distinguished Lecture: Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy and the Barret Cancer Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, 2000
  • Distinguished Lecture: Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 2001
  • DeGowin Lectureship in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine, 2001
  • Health Care Heroes Award Winner for Advancement in Health Care Category, Indianapolis Business Journal, March 2002
    Karl Landsteiner Award from the American Association of Blood Banks, Oct. 2002
  • Vice Chairperson, NHLBI Study Section on Innovative Grants, 2002
  • Health Care Heroes Award winner for Advancements in Health Care Category, Presented by the Indianapolis Business Journal, March 1, 2002.

    • Patents:

  • United States Patent No. 6,143,289 "Compositions of Myeloid-Cell-Suppressive Chemokines" (Inventors: Hal E. Broxmeyer, Scott Cooper, Charles Mantel and Li Lu).
  • United States Patent No. 5,004,681 - "Preservation of Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Blood" (4/2/91)
  • United States Patent No. 5,149,544 - "Methods for Inhibiting Progenitor Cell Proliferation" (9/22/92)
  • United States Patent No. 5,192,553 - "Isolation and Preservation of Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Blood and Methods of Therapeutic Use" (5/9/93)
  • United States Patent No. 5,249,544 - "Progenitor Cell Inhibition" (3/15/94)
  • United States Patent No. 5,728,377 - "Methods and Compositions Incorporating IP-10" (3/17/98)
  • United States Patent No. 6,165,459 (December 26, 2000): "Methods for Suppressing Myeloid Cells with Chemokines" (Inventors: Hal E. Broxmeyer, Scott Cooper, Charles Mantel and Li Lu).
  • United States Patent No. 6,281,200 B1 (August 28, 2001): "Functional Characterization of the C-C Chemokine-Like Molecules Encoded by Molluscum Contagiosum Virus Types 1 and 2" (Inventors: Kenneth H. Fife, Michell D. Krathwohl, Robert Hromas, Darron R. Brown, and Hal E. Broxmeyer).
  • United States Patent No. 6,355,476 B1 (March 12, 2002): "Nucleic Acid Encoding MIP-1a Lymphokine" (Inventors: Byoung Se Kwon, and Hal E. Broxmeyer).
  • United States Patent No. 6,461,645 B1 (October 8, 2002): "Isolation and Preservation of Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Blood" (Inventors: Edward A. Boyse, Hal E. Broxmeyer, and Gordon W. Douglas).
  • United States Patent No. 6,569,427 B1 (May 27, 2003): "Isolation and Preservation of Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Blood" (Inventors: Edward A. Boyse, Hal E. Broxmeyer, and Gordon W. Douglas).
  • United States Patent No. 6,605,275 B1 (August 12, 2003): "Isolation and Preservation of Fetal and Neonatal Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Blood" (Inventors: Edward A. Boyse, Hal E. Broxmeyer, and Gordon W. Douglas).
  • Prestigious External Award Recognition, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, April 25, 2003

Ghalib Alkhatib, Ph.D.

  • The NIH FARE Award for Research Excellence, 1997
  • McGillUniversity Summer Award, 1985
  • F.C. Harrison Fellowship, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
    McGillUniversity, 1985-1988
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada Scholarship, 1985-1988
    Dean's Honor List, McGillUniversity, 1988
  • Yaphy Welfard Award of Excellence, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGillUniversity, 1989
  • NSERC post-doctoral fellowship, Biotechnology Research Institute, NRC Canada, 1988-1990
  • Medical Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship, 1991- 1993

Janice S. Blum, Ph.D.

  • Leukemia Society of America Fellowship, 1986-1989
  • Parker B. Francis Fellowship, 1991-1993
  • Arthritis Foundation Research Award Recipient Washington State Chapter, 1992
  • New Investigator in Science and Medicine, University of Washington, 1994
  • Mary Jane Kugel Award, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International, 1999
  • Autumn Immunology Conference, Award for Service to the Council, 2001
  • Alvin S. Bynum Mentor Award, IUPUI, 2004
  • Faculty Travel Award for Minority Trainees, American Association of Immunologists,FASEB, MARC, 2004
  • Certificate of Recognition, Devotion to the Promotion of Research and Science
  • Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, Indiana University Medical Center Chapter, 2005
  • Randy S. Rosenthal Graduate Student Advocacy Award
  • Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University, 2005

H. Scott Boswell, Ph.D.

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Section Editor, Signal Transduction and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Leukemia Journal
  • Chairman, Hematology I Session, 45th Annual Meeting American Federation for Clinical Research

Randy R. Brutkiewicz, Ph.D.

  • American Association of Immunologists Travel Award to the 11th International Congress of Immunology, Stockholm, Sweden (22 – 27 July 2001)
  • Workshop Chair, “Receptors in Innate Immunity”, Autumn Immunology Conference (November 2002)
  • Scholar Award, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of America (2003 – 2008)
  • Invited Lecturer, Minority Affairs Committee, American Association of Immunologists (“Experimental Biology 2004” National Meeting), Washington, D.C. (17-21 April, 2004)
  • Invited Speaker, “Orthopoxvirus Working Group Meeting”, Bethesda, MD (April 22- 23, 2004)
  • Invited Speaker, “Third International Workshop on NKT Cells and CD1-Mediated Antigen Presentation”, Heron Island, Australia (Sept. 2004)
  • Faculty of 1000 (2004 – present)
  • Invited Speaker, American Transplant Congress (May 2005)
  • Chair, Minority Affairs Committee, American Association of Immunologists (2005 – 2009)
  • Chair (and participant), “Networking 101” Workshop, American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting (May 2006)
  • Chair, Minority Affairs Committee-Sponsored Lecture, American Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting (May 2006)
  • “Most Supportive Faculty Award”, Research In Progress, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine (May 2006)
  • “Randy S. Rosenthal Graduate Student Advocacy Award”, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine (May 2006)
  • Invited Speaker, “Fourth International Workshop on NKT Cells and CD1-Mediated Antigen Presentation”, Tuscany, Italy (October 2006)

Edward M. Chan, M.D.

  • Scholarship, American Medical Association, 1990
  • Scholarship, Indiana University, 1988-1992
  • Academic Achievement Award, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1992
  • Citation for Research in Medical Science, Indiana University School of Medicine, 1992
  • Delegate, American Medical Association Resident Physician Section, 1992-1995
  • Pharmacia and Upjohn Research Award, UCLA Medical Center, 1998

Cheong-Hee Chang,  Ph.D.

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1990-1994)
  • Travel Award, The American Association of Immunologists, 1998
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, U. MichiganMedicalSchool, 1999
  • Faculty Career Development Award, U. Michigan, 2000
  • Teacher of the month, U. Michigan Medical School, 2001

Yan Chen, Ph.D.

  • Honored student of the University, West China University of Medical Sciences, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Cancer Society, 1996-1998
  • Traveling award from Endocrine Society, 1999
  • Scientist Development Award, American Heart Association, 2000-2004

Alexander L. Dent, Ph.D.

  • NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, 1987
  • NIH Intramural Research Training Associate Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1992
  • NIH Quality of Work Life Award, 1997

Xin-Yuan Fu, Ph.D.

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Thomas A. Gardner, M.D.

  • Reagents Scholarship-New York Board of Reagents, 1982
  • Board of Trustees Honor Scholarship-George Washington University, 1982-1986
  • National Board of Medical Examiners, 1991
  • New York State Medical License, 1991
  • Andlinger Fellowship Award-The American Austrian Foundation, 1995
  • American Foundation of Urologic Disease Research Scholar Award, 1996-1998
  • NIH-Funded Training Program Cell and Molecular Biology of the Urogenital System 5-T32-DK07642, 1996-1998
  • Virginia State Medical License, 1997
  • CaPCURE Research Award, 1998
  • IND 8115 & RAC #9812-276 - Phase I Study of Ad-OC-TK Plus Valacyclovir for the Treatment of Metastatic Recurrent Prostate Cancer, 1998
  • AUA Essay Contest Co-First Prize in Research Category, 1998
  • CaPCURE Research Award, 1999
  • VICAL Best Abstract Award – 1999 Cancer Gene Therapy Meeting, 1999
  • Indiana State Medical License, 1999
  • NY Academy of Medicine Edwin Beer Award 2000

Mark G. Goebl, Ph.D.

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Maureen A. Harrington, Ph.D.

  • School of Medicine Teaching Award - 2000
  • Member: NSF Advisory Panel for the Cell Biology Program; Signal Transduction Grant Review Panel, February, 2000 – 2002
  • NIH Predoctoral Training Grant, 1980-1982
  • Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid, 1984
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1986
  • Ruddell Award, Walther Oncology Center, 1989
  • Leukemia Society of America, Special Fellow Award, 1989-1991
  • Leukemia Society of America, Scholar Award, 1992-1997

Johnny J. He, Ph.D.

  • National Research Service Award, Department of Health and Human Services, 1996-1997

Soon-Cheol Hong, Ph.D.

  • Howard Hughes Postdoctoral fellowship: 1989-1993

Meei-Huey Jeng, Ph.D.

  • Quest Diagnostic, Inc. New Investigator Travel Award, The Endocrine Society, 1997
  • Career Development Award, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research, 1997-2001
  • IDEA Award, Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research, 1996-1998, 1999-2002

Chinghai Kao, PhD.

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Michael J. Klemsz, Ph.D.

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Suk-Hee Lee, Ph.D.

  • American Cancer Society Award for Junior Scientist, 1989-1991
  • Research Investigator Award, Burroughs-Wellcome, 1995
  • A Special Reviewer of NIH Molecular Biology & Molecular Cytology Study Section, 1995-1997
    St. Jude Children's ResearchHospital Research Service Award, 1997

Daniela Matei, M.D., Ph.D.

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Harikrishna Nakshatri, Ph.D.

  • Indian Council of Agricultural Research Studentship, (1977-1982)
  • Three gold medals and one state award for obtaining top rank in Veterinary Science (1982)
  • The Cancer Research Society Inc., Quebec, Canada fellowship.(1988)
  • Excellence in Research Award, Memorial University of Newfoundland. (1988)
  • The National Cancer Institute of Canada fellowship (1989-1990)
  • Colman graduate student award, Memorial University of Newfoundland (1989)
  • International Cancer Congress Travel Award: American Cancer Society (2002)
  • Inaugural Michael K. Guest Award for innovative research by Walther Cancer Institute (2002)
  • Marian J. Morrison Investigator in Breast Cancer Research, Indiana University (2004-present)
  • Patent Awarded – Use of Parthenolide to Inhibit Cancer (6890946) (2005)

Louis M Pelus, Ph.D.

  • K.C. Sondi Award for outstanding graduate research, Rutgers University, 1977
  • National Research Service Award, National Cancer Institute, 1977.
  • Special Fellowship, The Leukemia Society of America, 1980
  • Young Investigator Award, National Cancer Institute, 1980
  • Scholar Award, The Leukemia Society of America, 1982
  • SmithKline Beecham Impact Awards for contributions to pharmaceutical business, 1995, 1997
  • Lifetime Member, Strathmore's Who's Who

Patents:

  • US Patent #: 6080398. June 27, 2000. Truncated GRO and KC chemokines having enhanced bioactivity. Method of increasing the biological activity of KC, gro-alpha, gro-beta and gro-gamma proteins, truncated and modified proteins characterized by having biological activities at least 1 log better than the full-length protein and pharmaceutical compositions containing same.
  • US Patent #: 6290948 B1. September 18, 2001. Method of treating sepsis and ARDS with chemokine b-10. Pelus, L.M. Method of preventing and treating sepsis and ARDS using chemokine.beta.4 or a biologically active fragment thereof, alone or in combination with an anti-infective agent.
  • US Patent #: 6406688. June 18, 2002. Method of treating sepsis and ARDS with chemokine b-4. Pelus, L.M. Method of preventing and treating sepsis and ARDS using chemokine.beta.4 or a biologically active fragment thereof, alone or in combination with an anti-infective agent.
  • US Patent #: 6399053 B1. June 4, 2002. Methods of enhancing bioactivity of chemokines. Pelus, L.M. Provides a method for the treatment of bacterial, fungal, and viral infections by administering a truncated Gro.beta.
  • US Patent #: 6447766. September 10, 2002. Method of mobilizing hematopoietic stem cells using CC chemokines. Pelus, L.M., White, J.R., Keier, B.L.

David A. Potter, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Sigma Xi, Young Investigator's Day Award, at JohnsHopkins UniversitySchool of Medicine
  • GRASP Center Pilot Project Award for Gastroenterology Research
  • Lifespan/NEMC New Initiatives Research Award
  • TuftsUniversitySchool of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award
  • Poster selected for oral presentation, FASEB Meeting on "The Calpain System in Health and Disease."
  • Invited Speaker, FASEB Calpain Meeting, June, 2001

Patents:

  • U.S. Patent No.:6,015,787. Potter, D. A. and P.R. Skolnik. 2000. Cell-Permeable Peptide Inhibitors of Calpain.
  • U.S. Patent No.:6,294,518. Potter, D.A. and P.R. Skolnik. 2001. Cell-Permeable Protein Inhibitors of Calpain.

Lawrence Quilliam, Ph.D.

  • Postgraduate Studentship, IOM Education Board, 1983-86
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California Cancer Research
  • Coordinating Committee, 1987-88
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Heart Association, 1988-91
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tobacco-related Disease Research Program, 1992

Ann Roman, Ph.D.

  • Co-organizer, The Molecular Biology of Small DNA Tumor Viruses Meeting, 2002
  • NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Indianapolis Professional and Business Woman of the Year 1986
  • American Society for Microbiology
  • Chairman-elect of Division S, DNA Viruses (1986-1987)
  • Chairman of Division S, DNA Viruses (1987-1988)
  • ASM Foundation Lecturer 1989-1990
  • Co-organizer, The Molecular Biology of Small DNA Tumor Viruses Meeting, 1998

Max Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D.

  • American Association for Cancer Research: Winner AACR-PanCAN Career Development Award in Pancreatic Cancer Research, November 2003
  • Central Surgical Assocation: Winner CSA Foundation Award, March 2002
  • JohnsHopkinsHospital, Department of Surgery,Baltimore, MD. Winner, Zuidema Basic Science Research Competition, June 1998
  • Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, WashingtonDC. Second Place, Student Research Forum, March 1998
  • Georgetown University, WashingtonDC. Winner (Post-Doctoral Division), Twelfth Annual Research Days Poster Competition, February 1998. Second Place (Post-Doctoral Division), Twelfth Annual Research Days Oral Competition, February 1998
  • BaltimoreAcademy of Surgery, Baltimore, MD. Resident Research Award, May 1994
  • JohnsHopkinsUniversity, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Medical Student Society Best Housestaff Award, April 1994
  • American College of Surgeons, Maryland Chapter, Baltimore, MD. Resident Research Award, Septmeber 1992
  • University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL. Departmental Award for Outstanding Performance in Surgery, 1992
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Richter Fellowship Grant for Student Research, 1988
  • University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL. Business Fellowship and Tuition Scholarship, 1987

Martin L. Smith, Ph.D.

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Christopher Touloukian, M.D., Ph.D.

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Gotz VonBulow, Ph.D.

 

Patents:

  • A lymphocyte surface receptor that binds CAML, nucleic acids encoding the same and methods of use thereof, Pat. no. 5,969,102. Assignee: St Jude Children's ResearchHospital. Inventors: von Bülow G-U. and Bram R.J

Jian-Ting Zhang, Ph.D.

  • 1981 Outstanding Student Award, Nanjing University
  • 1983 CUSBEA Fellow (China-U.S. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Examination and Administration which is a program that selects top 50-60 students nationwide in China to study for Ph.D. in U.S. graduate schools)
  • 1990-1993 Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Cancer Institute of Canada
  • 1995 Outstanding Poster Presentation Award, 86th Annual AACR Conference
  • 1998 Eminent Scholar, Indiana University School of Medicine
  • 1998-2001 Career Investigator Award, American Lung Association
  • 1999 EJCB Most Interesting Paper of the Year
  • 2005 Michael K. Guest Award for Innovative Research, Walther Cancer Institute