Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences held its Convocation ceremonies on May 29, 2007. Graduate School leadership, including Dr. David Hajjar, dean; Dr. Randi Silver, associate dean; and Francoise Freyre, assistant dean, presented the following awards for special achievement.
2007 Vincent du Vigneaud Prize
Abhishek Chatterjee, "Biosynthesis of the Thiazole Moiety of Thiamin in Eukaryotes" (Professor Tadhg P. Begley, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY)
2007 Vincent du Vigneaud Awards of Excellence
Marisa Carbonaro, a recipient of the du Vigneaud Award of Excellence, with Francoise Freyre (left) and Dr. David Hajjar (right).
Marisa Carbonaro, "HIF-1α mRNA Complexes Associate and Traffic on Interphase Microtubules for Efficient Protein Translation" (Professor Paraskevi Giannakakou)
Daniel Han, "Conformational Modulation of Rhodopsin by the NPXXY Motif in Transmembrane Helix 7 Depends on the Interaction of Y7.53 with F7.60 in the Juxtamembrane Helix 8" (Professor Harel Weinstein)
Niroshika Keppetipola, "Reprogramming the tRNA Splicing Pathway of a Bacterial RNA Repair Enzyme" (Professor Stewart Shuman)
2007 Vincent du Vigneaud First-Year Awards
Rebecca Jones, "Variant BDNF (VAL66MET) Impairs Extinction of Fear" (Professor Francis Lee)
Juliann Chmielecki, "MEK1/2 Inhibition Induces the Apoptosis of KRAS Driven NSCLC Unless There Is a Coexistent PIK3CA Mutation" (Professor Neal Rosen)
2007 Julian Rachele Prize
John W. Schoggins receives the distinguished Julian Rachele Prize from Dr. Hajjar.
John W. Schoggins, "Fiber and Penton Base Capsid Modifications Yield Diminished Adenovirus Type 5 Transduction and Proinflammatory Gene Expression with Retention of Antigen-Specific Humoral Immunity" Journal of Virology, 80: 10634-10644 (2006) (Professor Erik Falck-Pedersen)
2007 Distinguished Student Commencement Speaker Award
Peter Nicholas Jordan
2007 Student Service Award
Sumit Narayan Niogi
Photography by Amelia Panico.