Congratulations to John van den Anker, M.D., Ph.D, professor of Pediatrics, who was named the Distinguished Researcher of the year for GW. The GW Distinguished Researcher Award is presented annually to honor a member of the faculty for outstanding research achievements as demonstrated by the quality and significance of the faculty member’s work and the individual’s track record of biomedical, public health and health services research. Dr. van den Anker, along with his esteemed colleagues who have been recipients of this award in past years, have made an important research contribution, performed the body of his/her research at GW and made a contribution to GW by mentoring students and teaching.
Dr. van den Anker is a neonatologist and pharmacologist who studies the effects of pain medication in premature infants and directs major NIH clinical pharmacology grants.
Previous recipients of the award include (ineligible for renomination):
- Fred Abramson (Pharmacology)
- Vincent Chiappinelli (Pharmacology)
- Ayman El-Mohandes (Pediatrics/Obstetrics and Gynecology/MISPH)
- James Finkelstein (Medicine)
- Eric Hoffman (Pediatrics/Genetics)
- Paul Kimmel (Medicine)
- William Knaus (Anesthesiology)
- Ajit Kumar (Biochemistry)
- Stephan Ladisch (Biochemistry)
- Joanne Lynn (Medicine)
- Sally Moody (Anatomy)
- Jan Orenstein (Pathology)
- Steve Patierno (Pharmacology)
- Terence Phillips (Medicine)
- David Reiss (Psychiatry)
- Jeffrey Rosenstein (Anatomy)
- Herschel Sidransky (Pathology)
- Dudley Strickland (Biochemistry)
- Gary Simon (Medicine)
- Allan Goldstein (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology)
- George Mandel (Pharmacology & Physiology)
- Judith Hsia (Medicine) and David Mendelowitz (Pharmacology & Physiology)
- Michael Bukrinsky (Microbiology & Tropical Medicine)
- Vittorio Gallo (Center for Neuroscience Research) and Tsung Cheng (Medicine/Cardiology)
- Tim Hales (Pharmacology & Physiology)
- Peter Hotez (Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine)
- John Lachin (Epidemiology and Biostatistics)
- Mary Ann Stepp (Anatomy and Regenerative Biology)
