Nobel Associate:

1974 Nobel Prize in Medicine- Participated in scientific work honored in the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. George Palade in 1974.

1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine - Initial collaborator in the seminal scientific work honored in the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Gunter Blobel in 1999.

Recipient, 1991 PREPARE/21 RESEARCH AWARD, Beth Israel Hospital , Boston.

Chairman, FASEB Summer Conference (1988) on "Regulation of Gene Expression in Higher Animals by Hormones and Nutritional Substrates".

Organized and co-edited the leading resource book in the field, entitled "The Pancreas, Biology, Pathobiology and Diseases" (V.L. Go, J.D. Gardiner, H.A. Reber, E. Lebenthal, E.P. DiMagno, G.A. Scheele, eds.) Raven Press, New York , NY., first edition, 1986; second edition, 1993.

Organized and co-edited the first edition of the leading resource book in the field, entitled "The Pancreas, Biology, Pathobiology and Diseases" (V.L. Go, J.D. Gardner, F.P. Brooks , E. Lebenthal, E.P. DiMagno, G.A. Scheele, eds.) Raven Press, New York , NY., 1986; first edition, 1986.

President, American Pancreatic Association, 11/82 to 10/83

Hirschl Award, 1/79 to 1/84

Clinical Investigator Award, NIAMD, 1/73 to 6/74.

NIH Special Fellowship Award, NIAMD, 11/70 to 12/72.

Joseph Collins Scholarship Recipient, Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1961-1965

FAVORITE QUOTE:

"Now, though numberless fates. beset us which no mortal can escape or avoid, let us go forward together, and either we shall give honor to one another, or another to us."

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