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Nominations Invited for 2010 Honor Awards

2010 Award Nomination Form

The Council has asked the ABSA Awards Committee to seek nominations for the 2010 ABSA Honor Awards, to be presented at the 53rd Annual Biological Safety Conference, October 4-6, 2010, in Denver Colorado. All ABSA members are encouraged to submit nominations for the awards, to be received no later than July 19, 2010.

The three honor awards for which nominations are being sought are Arnold G. Wedum Distinguished Achievement Award, the Everett Hanel, Jr. Presidential Award, and the John H. Richardson Special Recognition Award. You are strongly encouraged to submit the completed nomination form(s) on-line as indicated on the web site. Alternatively, you may transmit the form(s) directly to the ABSA Office (absa@absa.org or fax 847-566-4580), who will then confirm receipt of the document. Letters of recommendation are no longer required.

The ABSA Awards Committee will review nominations for the three honor awards and will recommend candidates to the Council for its consideration. The Awards Committee may choose to make, if appropriate, more than one recommendation or no recommendation for an award. Presentation of awards will take place at the ABSA annual meeting, and the recipients will be notified in sufficient time to allow them to attend the meeting. The names of the award winners will be posted on the ABSA Web site and published in Applied Biosafety.

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2009 Biosafety Award Recipients

Guangping Gao, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worchester, MA

The American Biological Safety Association is pleased to present the 2009 Arnold G. Wedum Memorial Lecture Award to Guangping Gao, PhD in recognition of outstanding work that provided greater knowledge in the field of biological safety.

past recipients     

Joseph Kozlovac, RBP, CBSP, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD

The American Biological Safety Association was pleased to present the 2009 Everett Hanel, Jr. Presidential Award to Joseph Kozlovac.

The Everett Hanel, Jr. Presidential Award is given to a current ABSA member for outstanding contributions to ABSA by promoting the field of biological safety and fostering, by example, the high professional standards of the Association's membership.

Everett Hanel, Jr. was a member of Dr. Wedum's safety group at Fort Detrick from 1943-1972. Following his tenure there he became the Director of the Health & Safety group at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick. His efforts were central in the development and perpetuation of the Biological Safety Conference and the organization we know as ABSA. In 1983 Everett was chosen to be the first President of the American Biological Safety Association. In recognition of his significant contribution to this organization throughout his lifetime career in biosafety, the Everett Hanel, Jr. Presidential Award was established in 1993.

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Robert B. Tesh, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

The Eagelson Lecture Series Award recipient is selected in recognition of accomplishments that contribute to the awareness of biological hazards.

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Gary Fujimoto, MD, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA

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Joanie Kenney, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

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Peter C. B. Turnbull, Anatolio E. Reyes, Michael D. Chute, BS, Alfred J. Mateczun, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD

The American Biological Safety Association was pleased to present the 2009 Richard C. Knudsen Publication Award to Peter C. B. Turnbull, Anatolio E. Reyes, Michael D. Chute, BS, and Alfred J. Mateczun.

The Richard C. Knudsen Publication Award shall be given, when merited, to the author(s) of an article judged to be of the greatest service to the Association membership, whether the authors are members or not of the Association. The article shall have been published in Applied Biosafety the year preceding the award.

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William C. Griffin, MD, E. R. Griffin Foundation, Kingsport, TN

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Past recipients of the Outstanding Means of Communication Citation