GSA Honors Two NIH'ers
The General Services Administration recently honored the fourth graduating class of students in its "1,000 by 2000" program in information resources management. Two DCRT employees -- Lori Gordon and Michele Millican -- received certificates for completing six graduate-level courses in information technology and management. Both work in the Information Systems Branch. The program's intent is to have 1,000 information management professionals trained by the year 2000. So far, 448 federal workers have completed the program. Visit the GSA web page at http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/ to see photos of the honorees.
Dr. Bernard Moss
NIAID's Dr. Bernard Moss recently received the J. Allyn Taylor
International Prize in Medicine from the John P. Robarts
Research Institute in London, Ontario, Canada. Moss, chief of the
Laboratory of Viral Diseases, was cited for outstanding
contributions to the understanding of virus-host interactions. He
is recognized for the discovery of the first of a large number of
viral secreted immune defense molecules, biological
characterization of the first virus-encoded growth factor,
development of novel genetic approaches for the study of
poxviruses, and development of vaccinia virus into a versatile and
widely used expression vector system. He was also cited for a
number of studies on viral gene expression including the
determination of the mechanism of formation of the mRNA cap
structure. Moss received the honor along with Drs. Michael
Oldstone of the Scripps Institute and Bernard Roizman of the
University of Chicago. The prize is named after a Canadian
business leader who is past chair of the Robards Institute board of
directors, and is deeply involved in health care matters in
Canada.
Dr. Elizabeth Fee
Dr. Elizabeth Fee, chief, History of Medicine Division, NLM, has
received the Arthur Viseltear Prize for the History of Public
Health in America. The prize, established in 1989 and awarded by
the American Public Health Association, was created to honor
Viseltear, former professor of the history of medicine at Yale
University and former chair of the medical care section, APHA.
Fee was cited for her outstanding contribution to the history of
public health, in particular the scope and importance of her books
and articles.
Dr. Edward A. Berger
Dr. Edward A. Berger, chief of the molecular structure section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases,
NIAID, is a recipient of this year's Award for Biomedical Science
sponsored by Novartis (formerly Ciba Pharmaceuticals) and Drew
University. The award was presented in conjunction with the
Novartis Drew 21st annual symposium, Molecular Immunology:
Basic Research and Therapeutic Targets. Berger spoke on
"Chemokine Receptors and HIV: Doors for Virus Entry and
Windows on Transmission and Pathogenesis." He and his
laboratory staff recently identified the elusive cellular coreceptors
that the human immunodeficiency virus uses as it enters target
cells. These discoveries provide a major understanding of HIV
infection and tropism, and give new perspectives on broader
problems of HIV transmission, pathogenesis and therapy.
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