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SIMD Awards
Neil Buist Award
Founded in 2004, this award recognizes the legacy of teaching embodied by founding member Neil Buist, and is given  to the trainee delivering the most distinguished presentation at the Annual Meeting.
Year Recipient Topic
2004 Lina S. Correa-Cerro Development, characterization, and treatment of a hypomorphic SLOS mouse model.
2005 Amanda Helip-Wooley Unraveling Lysosome-Related Organelle Biogenesis Through the Cell Biology of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome.
2007 Miao He A Possible New Disorder of Cholesterol Biosynthesis Involving the 4-alpha-Methylsterol-4-Demethylase Complex
2008 Ralph J. De Berardinis Regulation of cellular metabolism by manipulating signal transduction pathways: Akt and c-Myc promote an anabolic phenotype favoring cell growth.


Emmanuel Shapira Award
Established in 2003 in memory of its eminent member Emmanuel Shapira M.D., Ph.D., this annual award is given for the best paper in the field of Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism (MGM) by an SIMD member or member’s trainee.

Year Recipient(s) Title
2003 Judith Fleming
Elena Tartaglini
Male infertility and thiamine-dependent erythroid hypoplasia in mice lacking thiamine transporter Slc19a2.  PMID: 14567973
2004 Gerard T. Berry The rate of de novo galactose synthesis in patients with galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase deficiency. PMID: 14728988
2006 Melanie Gillingham

Metabolic Control During Exercise With and Without Medium-Chain Triglyceride (MCT) in Children with Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (LCHAD) or Trifunctional Protein (TFP) Deficiency. PMID: 16876451

Randy Chandler

Propionyl-CoA and Adenosylcobalamin Metabolism in C. elegans : Evidence for a Role of Methylmalonyl-CoA Epimerase in Intermediary Metabolism. PMID: 16843692

2007 Eric Goetzman Expression and characterization of mutations in human very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase using a prokaryotic system. PMID: 17374501