Ajay Chawla, MD, PhD, was awarded a Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which supports the career development of promising young scientists with a prize of $100,000 per year for up to three years. Chawla is assistant professor of medicine (endocrinology, gerontology and metabolism). His research project is titled "Metabolic control of aging by peroxisome proliferator activated receptors."

Seung Kim, MD, PhD, assistant professor of developmental biology and of medicine, was named recipient of a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Living and Giving Award. His research focuses on the mechanisms governing pancreatic islet growth, cell differentiation and function, which may lead to therapies to foster islet growth and regeneration in diabetes patients. The award was presented April 24 in San Francisco.

Irving Weissman, MD, the Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor of Cancer Biology, will be awarded the New York Academy of Medicine Medal for Distinguished Contributions in Biomedical Science. The award has been presented since 1929. Weissman, who directs Stanford's Institute for Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, will receive the medal May 24 in New York.

Alice S. Whittemore, PhD, professor of health research and policy (epidemiology), and Mei-Chiung Shih, PhD, now assistant professor at Harvard School of Public Health, jointly received the Genetic Epidemiology Best Paper Award at the 2003 annual meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society. The paper "Tests for Genetic Association Using Family Data" was written while Shih was a postdoctoral scholar working with Whittemore. mcr