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2017 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

2017 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

2016 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

The Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology is the most prestigious award of the American Physiological Society (APS) Renal Section. It recognizes distinguished lifetime achievement in renal physiology research. This year's recipient is Peter Aronson, M.D., of Yale University. Dr

2015 Robert w. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

2015 Robert w. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology.

2014 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2014 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2013 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

Announcement2013 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal PhysiologyPublished Online:01 May 2013https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00163.2013This is the final version - click for previous versionMoreSectionsPDF (97 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail William H. Dantzler, MD, PhD, was selected by the Renal Section as the recipient of the 2013 Robert W. Berliner Award. Bill is an internationally recognized leader in physiology. He is especially noted for his research in comparative renal physiology, where he defined the crucial mechanism of urate secretion in reptilian and avian proximal tubules. His work in birds also provided key information that furthered our understanding of loop of Henle function in the mammalian kidney. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous book chapters, reviews, and similar contributions. Bill has been a stalwart leader in the American Physiological Society (APS) and at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he has been a faculty member in the Department of Physiology since 1968, and Head of that department from 1991 until he became an Emeritus Professor in 2005.Dr. William H. DantzlerDownload figureDownload PowerPointAfter graduating from Princeton, Dr. Dantzler received his MD from Columbia University in 1961, and his PhD in Zoology from Duke in 1964. At Duke he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen, who was the ideal mentor to foster Bill's research and teaching career. He went directly from her laboratory to an Assistant Professorship in the Pharmacology Department of Columbia, which he left in 1968 to accept an Associate Professorship in Physiology at Arizona.Dr. Dantzler's research on the physiology of reptilian and avian nephrons established the functional importance of the anatomic organization of the renal medulla. Comparison of renal concentrating and diluting capacity in these animal classes with that in mammals provided seminal insights into the operation of the mammalian concentrating and diluting mechanisms. Even after achieving emeritus status, Bill, in collaboration with Tom Pannebecker, has used three-dimensional computer reconstruction of immunohistochemical images to provide an elegant picture of the organization of both nephron segments and critical transporters in the mammalian inner medulla.Throughout his career, Bill used innovative technologies such as these to address key questions in renal physiology. In the early 1970s he was one of the first investigators to isolate and perfuse nephron segments in vitro. By measuring unidirectional fluxes of urate in proximal nephron segments from snake kidneys, Bill characterized the mechanism of active urate secretion, which is essential for both nitrogen excretion and water conservation in reptiles and birds. In a long-standing collaboration with Stefan Silbenagl, Bill also used in vivo micropuncture and microperfusion to demonstrate recycling of amino acids between vasa recta and Henle's loops in the rat renal inner medulla.The corpus of Bill's research has been recognized by numerous awards, his long-standing support from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, his editorship of AJP-Regulatory, Integrative. and Comparative Physiology, and his herculean task of assembling and editing the Handbook of Comparative Physiology.Dr. Dantzler is an outstanding teacher and has received numerous teaching awards from the University of Arizona. He also has been a leader in the APS, serving as President (1993–94) and chairperson of both the Renal and Water and Electrolyte sections. Bill is truly a most deserving recipient of the Berliner Award, which was established to recognize distinguished lifetime achievement in renal physiological research.This year's Robert W. Berliner Award Committee was composed of Heddwen Brooks (Renal Section Chair), Thomas Kleyman (Editor of AJP-Renal Physiology), and Volker Vallon (Chair of Renal Awards Committee).This article has no references to display. Previous Back to Top FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 304Issue 9May 2013Pages F1230-F1230 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2013 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00163.2013History Published online 1 May 2013 Published in print 1 May 2013 PDF download Metrics Downloaded 64 times

2013 Renal Section Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2013 Renal Section Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2012 Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2012 Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2012 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2012 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2009 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2009 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

2008 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

ANNOUNCEMENTS2008 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal PhysiologyPublished Online:01 Mar 2008https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00010.2008This is the final version - click for previous versionMoreSectionsPDF (63 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInWeChat Dr. Gerald F. DiBona has been named the 2008 recipient of the Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology, sponsored by Abbott Laboratories and presented by the Renal Section of the American Physiological Society (APS). Established in 1993, with Carl W. Gottschalk as the first recipient, the Berliner Award is the most prestigious award of the Renal Section. The award annually honors a US citizen who has achieved world renown as a distinguished scientist through major contributions to the field of renal physiology over a lifetime, including accomplishments in research, teaching, training, and activities within the APS. Dr. DiBona will receive the award at the Renal Dinner on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, during the Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego, CA.A 1964 graduate of the Tufts University School of Medicine, Dr. DiBona completed internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, he completed a two-year fellowship in Medicine and Nephrology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In 1969, he accepted an Assistant Professor appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, where he quickly rose through the ranks to the level of Professor in 1975. He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine in 1977, serving in that position for 24 years, and has held a joint appointment as Professor of Physiology and Biophysics since 1997. In 2004, he was named Professor Emeritus in these departments. Over the years, Dr. DiBona completed sabbaticals as Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Göteborg, and the Karolinska Institute. He continues his scientific ties to Scandinavia by spending 4–5 months annually as Foreign Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and 1 month each year as Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of Copenhagen.Dr. DiBona is a renowned renal physiologist who is best known for his research on neural control of renal function, with these efforts contributing greatly to key concepts of renal fluid and electrolyte homeostasis in health and disease. Dr. DiBona has published more than 270 peer-reviewed manuscripts and review articles, as well as 48 book chapters. He has garnered numerous awards in recognition of his research accomplishments, including an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Göteborg in 1993, the Starling Distinguished Lectureship of the APS Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section in 2000, the APS Walter B. Cannon Memorial Lecture in 2005, and the 2002 Novartis Award for Hypertension Research from the American Heart Association.Dr. DiBona has not only made major scientific advancements in the field of renal physiology but has also made major contributions in the areas of teaching and mentoring young scientists. A number of outstanding scientists trained in his laboratory over the past 30 years, with the list including supervision of 24 postdoctoral fellows and the hosting of 16 sabbaticals by other scientists. His dedication to training a new generation of scientists was best summed up by one of his nominators, who noted, “Even to this day, he is one of the few senior investigators who will take the time to get to know the young investigators in the field. He knows the names of young post-docs in various labs and is keen to do what he can to help them enter the field.”In addition to his research and mentoring accomplishments, Dr. DiBona has been tireless in his service to the scientific community. He has served on numerous study sections, editorial boards, and advisory committees and has held leadership positions in the American Federation for Clinical Research and the American Society of Hypertension. Dr. DiBona has been an active member of the APS since 1971, serving as a program representative for the Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section, as a member of the Publication Committee, and as Chair of the Committee on Committees. In addition, he served a 3-year term as Councillor and was the 73rd President of the Society.The APS Renal Section's Berliner Award Committee was composed of John D. Imig (Renal Section Awards Committee Chair), Pamela K. Carmines (Renal Section Chair), and Thomas R. Kleyman (Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology). Dr. Gerald DiBonaDownload figureDownload PowerPointThis article has no references to display. Download PDF Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 294Issue 3March 2008Pages F682-F682 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2008 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00010.2008History Published online 1 March 2008 Published in print 1 March 2008 Metrics

2007 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology

ANNOUNCEMENTS2007 Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal PhysiologyPublished Online:01 Mar 2007https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00015.2007MoreSectionsPDF (34 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail Dr. L. Gabriel Navar has been named the 2007 recipient of the Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology, sponsored by Abbott Laboratories and presented by the Renal Section of the American Physiological Society (APS). Established in 1993, with Carl W. Gottschalk as the first recipient, the Berliner Award is the most prestigious award of the Renal Section. The award annually honors a U.S. citizen who has achieved world renown as a distinguished scientist through major contributions to the field of renal physiology over a lifetime, including accomplishments in research, teaching, training, and activities within the APS. Dr. Navar will receive the award at the Renal Dinner on Monday, May 1, 2007, during the Experimental Biology Meeting in Washington, DC.Dr. Navar completed his undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University and earned the PhD degree in 1966 from the University of Mississippi under the tutelage of Dr. Author C. Guyton. He then accepted an Instructor position at Mississippi, quickly rising through the ranks to the level of Associate Professor by 1971. He spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at Duke University, where he learned micropuncture under the guidance of Drs. Ike Robinson and Jim Clapp. In 1974, he accepted a position as Associate Professor (and was soon promoted to Professor) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he was affiliated with both the Nephrology Research and Training Center and the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. He moved to Tulane University School of Medicine in 1988, where he is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology.Fueled by his PhD research on renal autoregulation, Dr. Navar's long-term research efforts have significantly advanced our understanding of pressure-natriuresis, regulation of glomerular filtration dynamics in the dog, arterial pressure regulation, autoregulatory mechanisms, the tubuloglomerular feedback response, angiotensin II influences on renal hemodynamic and excretory function, and mechanisms of angiotensin II-dependent hypertension. He has published 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts and 123 book chapters and review articles. Dr. Navar has garnered numerous awards in recognition of his research accomplishments, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Consortium for Southeastern Hypertension Control, the American Society of Hypertension's Richard Bright Award, and the Arthur C. Corcoran Award from the American Heart Association. In 1997, he was the Carl W. Gottschalk Distinguished Lecturer of the APS Renal Section.Dr. Navar's research efforts have been inexorably linked to training young scientists. He excels in teaching at the advanced graduate student and postdoctoral levels, helping these individuals with complex concepts of renal physiology, as well as the design, execution, and interpretation of experimental studies. Indeed, Dr. Navar's mentorship has contributed to the success of numerous individuals who have been named Established Investigators of the American Heart Association, who have had long-term National Institutes of Health grant support, and who are now producing another generation of students and fellows pursuing research in the field of renal physiology. In recognition of his mentoring efforts, he was named the 2005 recipient of the Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award of the APS.In addition to his research and mentorship accomplishments, Dr. Navar is a tireless servant to the scientific community, having held leadership positions in the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, the American Society of Hypertension, the Association of Chairs of the Departments of Physiology, and others. His service and dedication to the APS include his election to the APS Council (1991–1994), his service as President of the Society (1998–1999), and his current position as chair of the Long Range Planning Committee.The APS Renal Section's Berliner Award Committee was composed of John D. Imig (Renal Section Awards Chair), Pamela K. Carmines (Renal Section Chair), and Jeff M. Sands (Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology).Dr. L. Gabriel NavarDownload figureDownload PowerPointThis article has no references to display. Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 292Issue 3March 2007Pages F1103-F1103 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2007 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00015.2007PubMed17020931History Published online 1 March 2007 Published in print 1 March 2007 PDF download Metrics Downloaded 52 times

Announcement

ANNOUNCEMENTSAnnouncementPublished Online:01 May 2006https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00018.2006MoreSectionsPDF (37 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmailWeChat Dr. Kenneth R. Spring has been named the 2006 recipient of the Robert W. Berliner Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology, sponsored by Abbott Laboratories and presented by the Renal Section of the American Physiological Society. Dr. Spring will receive the award at the Renal Dinner on Tuesday, April 4, 2006.Dr. Spring attended Tufts University as both an undergraduate in Biology and for dental school, earning his DMD cum laude in 1966. He worked at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital in Long Beach, California, from 1966 to 1967 and at the VA Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1967 to 1968, where he was a Chief Investigator. He then attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he completed his PhD in the Department of Physiology in 1971 under the supervision of Dr. Charles Paganelli. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Gerhard Giebisch in the Department of Physiology, Yale University College of Medicine, from 1971 to 1975, he accepted a position as a Senior Staff Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism. He became a Research Physiologist at the NIH in 1978. He received the NIH Director’s Award in 1988 and was also made Chief, Section on Transport Physiology, at the Laboratory of Kidney and Electrolyte Metabolism in 1988, a position he held until he retired in 2002. In 2001 he received an NIH Merit Award.Dr. Spring is a world-recognized expert on microscopy applications to biological systems, as well as being an inventor of many ingenious devices used worldwide for biological research. He has published over a 130 peer-reviewed manuscripts on the use and application of these techniques to the study of transport physiology. His research focused on the study of salt and water transport in “leaky epithelia,” such as the renal proximal tubule; then, he switched his emphasis to applying optical methods to the regulation of cell volume, and finally, before he retired, demonstrated the functional role of the central cilium as a flow sensor in epithelial cells by performing experiments that demonstrated how bending the cilium increased intracellular calcium. During these years of research, he has trained numerous young scientists who have become leaders in the field of ion transport physiology and was always willing to share his expertise in microscopy with investigators from across the world.Dr. Spring was also a faculty member at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, from 1980 until he retired, teaching courses on quantitative light microscopy and advanced quantitative light microscopy. Dr. Spring served on several study sections, advisory committees, and editorial boards, including those of the Journal of Membrane Biology and Cytology (formerly Bioimaging), of which he was also associate editor from 1992 to 2002, the NIH Shared Instrumentation Study Section, and the National Science Foundation Biological Instrumentation and Instrument Development Study Section. Finally, in 2001 he authored a very funny book of autobiographical short stories, What Were You Thinking, which detailed his escapades growing up in a fishing village in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Following retirement he went back to his first love of fishing and boat-building; he is now the part-owner and founder of Small Open Boats in Solomons, Maryland, where he builds wooden boats and provides tools, materials, and expertise for others to do the same.The APS Renal Section’s Berliner Award Committee was composed of Heddwen L. Brooks (Renal Section Awards Chair); Pamela K. Carmines (Renal Section Chair), Jeff M. Sands (Editor, American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology), and Glenn Reinhart (Abbott Laboratories). Download figureDownload PowerPointThis article has no references to display. Download PDF Previous Back to Top FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 290Issue 5May 2006Pages F1278-F1278 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 2006 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00018.2006History Published online 1 May 2006 Published in print 1 May 2006 Metrics

Neurex Young Investigator Award Winner

ANNOUNCEMENTNeurex Young Investigator Award WinnerPublished Online:01 Feb 1999https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.1999.276.2.F329MoreSectionsPDF (28 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInEmail Download figureDownload PowerPointThe Renal Section of the American Physiological Society is pleased to announce the 1999 recipient of the Neurex Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Renal Physiology: Dr. Michael J. Caplan, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine. The purpose of this award is to recognize an outstanding young investigator working in any area of renal physiology or hypertension. Dr. Caplan will present his keynote lecture, entitled “Membrane Trafficking and the Regulation of Ion Transport Proteins,” during a mini-symposium at the Experimental Biology ’99 meeting in Washington, DC, April 17–21, 1999. Dr. Caplan will receive his Neurex Young Investigator Award during the Renal Dinner on April 20. This award is presented annually at the Experimental Biology meeting and is made possible by the generous support of the Neurex Corporation, Menlo Park, CA. Dr. Caplan received his B.A. degree in biology in 1980 from Harvard College and his M.D./Ph.D. degree in 1987 from Yale University School of Medicine. He has remained at Yale ever since, rising progressively from Fellow to Assistant Professor in 1988, to Associate Professor in 1993, and to Professor in 1998. Dr. Caplan is a recipient of the APS 1998 Henry Pickering Bowditch Award Lectureship and the American Society of Nephrology/American Heart Association’s 1998 Young Investigator Award. He has published 36 manuscripts and written 26 reviews or book chapters. The cell surface membranes of epithelial cells are divided into two distinct domains characterized by distinct protein compositions, reflecting their different roles in vectorial solute transport. Dr. Caplan is interested in the molecular signals and cellular machinery involved in generating this polarity. His studies make use of two families of transport proteins, each of whose members are sorted to different surfaces despite extensive homology. The Na-K-ATPase and the H-K-ATPase are closely related at the structural and functional levels but are targeted differently. Similarly, transport systems involved in neurotransmitter re-uptake are highly homologous but differentially sorted. Dr. Caplan is generating molecular chimeras composed of complementary portions of related pumps and transporters and expressing them by transfection in polarized epithelial cells. This approach allows him to identify segments of these molecules which contribute to their sorting behaviors as well as to their physiological properties. Dr. Caplan’s targeting studies have led to the generation of a transgenic mouse that is unable to inactivate H-K-ATPase function and consequently hypersecretes gastric acid. These mice develop gastritis and gastric ulcerations with histological features that are essentially identical to those found in human disease. Recent studies suggest that the same signals that modulate gastric acid secretion may also regulate active potassium reabsorption in the renal collecting duct. The APS Renal Section’s Neurex Young Investigator Award Committee, a subcommittee of the Renal Section Steering Committee, included Douglas Eaton (Renal Section Sage), Roger O’Neil (Renal Section past Chair), Jeff Sands (Renal Section Treasurer and Chairman-Elect), and Jurgen Schnermann (Renal Section Program Committee Chair). The Renal Section wishes to express its sincere appreciation to the Neurex Corporation for their generous support of biomedical education.This article has no references to display. Previous Back to Top FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 276Issue 2February 1999Pages F329-F329 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1999 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.1999.276.2.F329PubMed29591646History Published online 1 February 1999 Published in print 1 February 1999 PDF download Metrics Downloaded 52 times

The Robert W. Berliner Award for excellence in renal physiology.

ARTICLESThe Robert W. Berliner Award for excellence in renal physiologyPublished Online:01 Mar 1993https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.1993.264.3.F575MoreSectionsPDF (422 KB)Download PDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesGet permissionsTrack citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInWeChat "The Robert W. Berliner Award for excellence in renal physiology." American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology, 264(3), p. F575 Previous Back to Top Download PDF FiguresReferencesRelatedInformation More from this issue > Volume 264Issue 3March 1993Pages F575-F575 Copyright & PermissionsCopyright © 1993 the American Physiological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.1993.264.3.F575PubMed8456966History Published online 1 March 1993 Published in print 1 March 1993 Metrics