Awards

Dr. Vallerie McLaughlin, director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Program, has earned the 2010 Award of Excellence in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. The rare, difficult-to-treat condition is characterized by high blood pressure in the lung and is more common in women than men. As part of the award, the U-M Health System

will receive a $50,000 grant to support continued excellence in care for patients with PH.

Robert Zucker, director of the Substance Abuse Section and Addiction Research Center and professor in the LSA Department of Psychology and the Department of Psychiatry, received the 31st annual Research Society on Alcoholism Distinguished Researcher Award during the society’s national meeting June 30. The award is given to an individual whose research has made significant contributions to the understanding of alcohol abuse and alcoholism, and whose body of work demonstrates leadership in the field.

Dr. Martin Myers, the Marilyn H. Vincent Professor of Diabetes Research, associate professor of internal medicine and associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology, Medical School, has been chosen to receive the American Diabetes Association’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding scientific achievement in the field of diabetes. Myers helped build the framework for understanding how the fat hormone leptin regulates metabolism.

Dr. John Tesmer, a research associate professor at the Life Sciences Institute and associate professor of pharmacology at the Medical School, has been named the winner of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Young Investigator Award. Tesmer has become a recognized leader in the structural biology of G protein signaling. The award includes a plaque, $5,000, and transportation and expenses to the 2010 ASBMB Annual Meeting to present a lecture.