Faculty Awards and Honors
May 2012 - April 2013
Alison Barth
Received a 2013 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award from the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience
Appointed to the Society for Neuroscience Program Committee, 2013-2015
Dannie Durand
and collaborators awarded a Human Frontiers Science Program grant for international research
Aryn Gittis
Finalist for 2013 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology
Veronica Hinman
Awarded a 2012 Eberly Career Development Chair
Invited to serve on the scientific advisory board for SpBase
Chien Ho
Named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Received a Gold Metal for his pioneering contribution of MRI-based cell tracking by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Jonathan Minden
Received the 2012 Richard Moore Award
Published a book dedicated to the widely used difference gel electrophoresis (DIGE) technique, which was invented in the Minden lab
Aaron Mitchell
Invited to serve on the advisory board for the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Investigators in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease Program
Became chair-elect and lecturer for the American Society for Microbiology Division F, the Medical Mycology Division
Robert Murphy
2013 JBS Authors' Choice Award from the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening for his paper featured in the special July 2012 bioimage informatics issue of Nature Methods
Manojkumar Puthenveedu
Awarded a 2012 Eberly Career Development Chair
Gordon Rule
Appointed Associate Dean for Research of Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q)
Nathan Urban
Appointed to advisory panel for NIH Common Fund Single Cell Analysis Program
Awarded the University of Pittsburgh 225th Anniversary Medallion
John Woolford
Became a member of the advisory board for the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation

