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Dr. Hudson Freeze wins 2016 Rosalind Kornfeld AwardThe Society for Glycobiology is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2016 Rosalind Kornfeld Award is awarded to Dr. Hudson Freeze. The Rosalind Kornfeld Award was established in 2008 to honor the distinguished scientific career and service to the Society by Dr. Rosalind Kornfeld. The award is given by the Society to scientists who have made significant contributions with an important impact on the field of Glycobiology over their professional lifetimes.
Hud has been PI or co-PI on several grants from NIH and other public and private agencies. He has also received a number of awards over the years in recognition of his outstanding science. In 2013, he received the Golden Goose Award, along with his mentor at the time, Thomas Brock, for their discovery of the thermophile, Thermus aquaticus (Taq), when Hud was just an undergraduate researcher. In the glycobiology community, Hud has been an exceptional contributor and role model. He has organized or co-organized more than 10 meetings in the last 25 years, including the Glycobiology Gordon Research Conference and a highly successful joint meeting between the Society for Glycobiology and American Society for Matrix Biology in 2012. More recently, he has chaired and organized the SBP Rare Disease Day Symposium, an outstanding platform for investigators working on rare diseases including CDGs. Hud has served on numerous grant review panels, editorial boards and scientific advisory boards. This year, he represents the Society for Glycobiology as president of FASEB, a major advocacy group for life sciences research in the USA. His lobbying efforts have helped secure increases in the NIH budget, whose benefits extend far beyond glycoscience to all areas of biomedical research. Aside from his advocacy for our field, Hud has been a hero for the CDG community, taking a personal approach with both the patients and their families. These efforts have brought him full circle back to his love of medicine by providing molecular diagnoses for the affected kids and support for them beyond the laboratory with his advocacy for rare disease research. His achievements - along with his efforts for the CDG families, and his tireless service to the Society and scientific community - make him an ideal choice for the Rosalind Kornfeld award. ¹To whom correspondence should be addressed: email [email protected]. ²Stuart Haslam, Richard Steet, and Christopher West are acknowledged for their contributions to these essays. |