| Program
Update 2000
November
28, 2000
Angeline
Andrew to receive Wetterhahn Award
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Angeline
Andrew, Ph.D. |
Angeline Andrew, a graduate student
in Dartmouth Medical School's Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology and a Graduate Fellow in Dartmouth's Toxic Metals
Program, has been selected to receive this year's Karen
Wetterhahn Award from the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NEIHS). Andrew, who works in the laboratory
of Aaron Barchowsky, Associate Professor of Toxicology and
Pharmacology, will receive the award and give a keynote research
talk at the national Superfund Basic Research Program meeting
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in December. The NIEHS established
the award three years ago to honor Dartmouth chemistry professor
Karen Wetterhahn, who died in June, 1997, after an accidental
exposure to highly toxic methylmercury in her laboratory.
Wetterhahn was the initial program director of Dartmouth's
Superfund Basic Research Program and was also instrumental
in establishing the Women in Science Project at Dartmouth,
which provides mentors and support to undergraduate female
students in the sciences. Wetterhahn's contributions to the
understanding of metals toxicology include the development
of the chromium uptake-reduction model and the importance
of cellular metabolism of chromium to its toxicity. The Karen
Wetterhahn Award is given each year to a young scientist within
the national NIEHS-funded Superfund Basic Research Program.
The award recognizes investigators working on some aspect
of metal toxicology who exemplify Karen Wetterhahn's dedication
to both scientific research and the mentoring of young women
scientists. Angeline Andrew is doing research on the mechanism
of nickel-induced lung disease as the basis of her Ph.D. thesis.
She is expected to complete her doctoral degree this year
and plans to continue working on environmentally related human
health issues.
Nancy
Serrell
Center for Environmental
Health Sciences at Dartmouth
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