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Annually Administered Awards
Graduate Student Awards Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award
Flagship graduate student award within the Mechanisms Specialty Section, and is the oldest graduate student award. Recognizes outstanding research by graduate students at the Annual Meeting. Finalists are selected based on strength of abstract and invited to submit a manuscript based on work presented at the Annual Meeting. First, second and third place winners are awarded plaques and monetary prizes.
Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award Administered in partnership with the Risk Assessment Specialty Section, recognizes outstanding research applying mechanistic toxicology to risk assessment. Provides travel awards to one or more graduate students to participate in the Annual Meeting.
Ronald G. Thurman Student Travel Award Recognizes presenting authors on one or more mechanistic abstracts by providing a travel award to participate in the Annual Meeting.
Sheldon D. Murphy Student Travel Award
Recognizes presenting authors on mechanistic abstracts by providing a travel award to participate in the Annual Meeting. Approximately 5-6 awardees are selected each year.
Postdoctoral Scientist Awards Postdoctoral Student Travel Award
Honors two outstanding postdoctoral fellows with a travel award to attend the Annual Meeting.
Gabriel L. Plaa Education Award Recognizes outstanding postdoctoral research. Recipients are selected based on strength of abstract, CV, cover letter, recommendation letters, and performance in interviews conducted prior to the Annual Meeting. First, second, and third place prizes are awarded.
Additional Awards Renal Toxicology Award
Recognizes outstanding research conducted in renal toxicology by graduate students and postdoctoral scientists. Awardees receive monetary prizes.
Career Achievement Award* Honors a member’s career achievements, leadership in SOT, and
predominantly contributions to mechanistic research.
Incoming Officers (2018-2019)
2017-2018 Officers
Symposium Adipocyte Toxicology and Obesogens
Symposium Decoding Oxidative Stress from Inflammation: Implications for Exposure, Toxicity and Disease
Symposium Revising Biology: Using Genomic and Epigenomic Editing to Gain Novel Insight into the Mechanisms of Toxic Exposure Effects and Susceptibility
Workshop Predicting Drug-Induced Cholestatic Injury in Humans
Symposium Effectively Leveraging Cellular Functional Genomics Strategies for Elucidating Chemical Mechanism of Action
Symposium Mitochondria Biogenesis and Dysfunction in Cellular Senescence in the Cardiopulmonary System
Symposium The Role of the Epigenome in the Etiology of Metal-Induced Disease
2018 Annual Meeting Sponsored/Endorsed Programming
2017 Awardees
Officer Organization Position Brian S. Cummings
University of Georgia
President
Donna D. Zhang
University of Arizona
Vice President
Rhiannon N. Hardwick
Theravance Biopharma
Vice President-Elect
Angela L. Slitt University of Rhode Island
Past President
Martin Ronis Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Secretary/Treasurer
Udayan M. Apte Kansas University Medical Center
Senior Councilor
Kristina K. Wolf LifeNet Health Junior Councilor Dwayne Carter Organovo, Inc. Postdoctoral
Representative Kyle S. Saitta Rutgers
University Graduate Student Representative
Officer Organization Position
Brian J. Day National Jewish Health Vice President-Elect
James P. Luyendyk
Michigan State University Junior Councilor
Laura Armstrong Rutgers University Postdoctoral
Representative Cody Schmidlin
University of Arizona
Graduate Student Representative
Mechanisms Specialty Section
• Founded in 1981 as the first Specialty Section within the Society of Toxicology
• The Mechanisms Specialty Section represents a diverse group of members of the Society of Toxicology who have common interests and expertise in elucidating the cellular, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of action of toxic substances
• The Mechanisms Specialty Section provides a focal point for interaction of members of the Society of Toxicology interested in the development and dissemination of new advances in mechanistic research in toxicology
• A newsletter is published two times a year to inform members and the SOT community about membership, endowment funds, and upcoming award opportunities
Graduate Student Award Winners
Postdoctoral Scientist Award Winners
Career Achievement Award
The Mechanisms Specialty Section enacted the Career Achievement Award in 2014 in order to honor the achievements and contributions of an outstanding member to mechanistic toxicological research. The 2017 Career Achievement Award was presented to Steven D. Cohen, PhD, Fellow ATS (pictured left). Dr. Cohen is a leading researcher known for toxicology education and for shaping the careers of several current leaders in SOT and the Mechanisms Specialty Section. As an educator at the University of Connecticut, he founded the Center for Biochemical Toxicology and the Inter-departmental Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Environmental Toxicology. He has served in numerous leadership positions within SOT, including President. He has made multiple key findings that elucidated the mechanisms by which acetaminophen induced liver and kidney damage and has contributed to our understanding of covalent binding to target-organ toxicity.
Student/Postdoc Award Winners
Sheldon D. Murphy Student Travel Award
Left to Right: Dahea You (Rutgers), Madelyn Huang (UNC), Nehal Gupta (Texas Tech), Cory Gerlach (Harvard), Kelly Fader (Michigan State), Gopi Gadapudi (Iowa).
Ronald G. Thurman Student Travel Award
Left to Right: Yu-Syuan Luo (Texas A&M), Diptadip Dattaroy (S. Carolina). Not pictured: Ramiya Kumar (Clemson)
Carl C. Smith Graduate Student Award
Left to Right: 1st Place, Dahea You (Rutgers); 2nd Place, Kelly Fader (Michigan State); 3rd Place (tie), Bryan Harder (Arizona) and Emma Bowers (UNC)
Robert J. Rubin Student Travel Award
Yvonne Chang (Oregon State)
Renal Toxicology Award
Left to Right: 3rd Place, Cory Gerlach (Harvard); 2nd Place, Qian Lin (Louisville); 1st Place, Priyanka Trivedi (Harvard)
Postdoctoral Student Travel Award
Left to Right: Kristin Bircsak (Penn), Jolyn Fernandes (Emory)
Gabriel L. Plaa Education Award
Left to Right: 2nd Place, Matt Dodson (Arizona); 1st Place, Gregory Smith (UNC); 3rd Place, Joseph Cichocki (Texas A&M)
2017-2018 Mechanisms Specialty Section Officers