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Josef Warkany Lecturer

Description: This award recognizes a scientist who has significantly contributed to the field of teratology over his/her career. The award recipient presents a lecture scheduled as a highlight of the Teratology Society's annual meeting.

Eligibility requirements: A distinguished career devoted to research in the field of teratology. The lecturer need not be a member of the Teratology Society. Candidates can be nominated by members of the Teratology Society, and at times nominations have also been made by an ad hoc selection committee.

Judging process: The Warkany Lecturer is selected by the president of the Teratology Society from the list of nominated candidates.

 

Past Recipients

2007
Ann P. Streissguth, University of Washington School of Medicine
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders from Teratology to Public Health

2006
George P. Daston, Procter & Gamble Company
Genomics and Assessment of Developmental Risks

2005
Anthony R. Scialli, M.D., Sciences International, Inc.
Clinicians

2004
Carl L. Keen, University of California, Davis
The Critical Role of Mocronutrients in Pregnancy Outcome:  Zinc as an Illustration

2003
Patricia Rodier, University of Rochester        
Autism as a Birth Defect

2002
Kenneth L. Jones
University of California, San Diego
From Recognition to Responsibility: David Smith, Josef Warkany and the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in the 21st Century.

2001
Philip E. Mirkes
D
epartment of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
To Die, Or Not To Die: That is the Question

2000
William J. Scott, Jr.
University of Cincinnati
Alteration of pattern formation as a mechanism of teratogenesis

1999
Carol Kimmel
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Improving the science for predicting risks to children's health

1998
John Gerhart
University of California, Berkeley
Signal transduction pathways in development

1997
Godfrey P. Oakley, Jr.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Preventing birth defects—rubella, alcohol, and folic acid are better models then thalidomide, valproic acid, and accutane

1996
William Webster
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Rubella to retinoids, rodents, risks, and reactions

 

1995
Andrew G. Hendrickx
University of California, Davis
Primate teratology in perspective

1994
Lewis B. Holmes
Massachusetts General Hospital
Clinical studies of teratogenesis: Observations and challenges

1993
Heinz Nau
Institute for Toxicology, Berlin, Germany
From species differences to development of safer drugs: The role of pharmacokinetics and metabolism studies

1992
Robert L. Brent
Jefferson Medical College
The impact of radiation research on the understanding of teratology principles

1991
F. Clarke Fraser
McGill Centre for Human Genetics, Montreal, Canada
A personal perception of public perceptions of teratogenetic risks

1990
Devendra M. Kochhar
Jefferson Medical College
Role of retinoic acid as a morphogen and a teratogen

1989
E. Marshall Johnson
Jefferson Medical College
The natural history for possible scoring of chemical exposures potentially hazardous to human embryonic development

1988
Thomas H. Shepard
University of Washington
Borderlines between human embryology, teratology, and medicine

1987
Kurt Benirschke
University of California, San Diego
You need a sympathetic pathologist—the borderland of embryology and pathology revisited

1986
Philip Leder
Harvard Medical School
Insertional mutagenesis

1985
Bengt K–llØn
University of Lund, Lund, Sweden
Searching for teratogenic risks with the aid of malformation registries


 

rev. 1-November-2007

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