 | Galvin Honored with Three Awards
St. Louis, June 7, 2002 — James E. Galvin, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, received three awards in recognition of his research on Lewy body dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease.
Galvin received the Alene and Meyer Kopolow Award from the Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation at the inaugural annual awards ceremony sponsored by Washington University’s new Center for Aging. The award provides $2,000 in recognition of exemplary achievement in geriatrics by junior faculty or trainees, and honors the Kopolows’ efforts to improve geriatric care by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and its physicians. The Kopolow Award is not a yearly award, but rather is bestowed upon a recipient only when achievement justifies the reward.
Galvin also was awarded the Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Award, which provides $450,000 over three years to young physician-scientists. The program is administered by the American Federation for Aging Research and the Alliance for Aging Research, and is dedicated to encouraging outstanding young clinicians to continue aging research, patient care and teaching. The Beeson award will support Galvin’s research into the molecular mechanisms that underlie Lewy body dementia.
“Research of Lewy body diseases lags, in part due to the absence of reliable animal and tissue culture models that accurately recapitulate the pathologic features of the disease,” Galvin says.
In addition, Galvin received a three-year, $450,000 Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the clinical and pathological features of Lewy body dementias in an effort to improve the definition and diagnosis of this disease.
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