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2009 International Dose-Response Society Awards The International Dose-Response Society is proud to announce the recipients of the annual awards for Outstanding Leadership, Outstanding Career Achievement and Outstanding New Investigator. These awards are presented to individuals in each category who have made outstanding contributions to the field of Dose Response. The awards committee selecting the recipients was Barbara Callahan, University Research, Helmut Hirsch, University at Albany, Ken Mundt, Environ. This year’s awards go to Jim Muckerheide for Outstanding Leadership, Ludwig Feinendegen for Outstanding Career Achievement and Regina Belz for Outstanding New Investigator. Congratulations to all.
Massachusetts State Nuclear Engineer -
since 1990 Mr. Muckerheide was Senior Engineer and Project Manager in design, construction, safety analysis, licensing, and environmental and health effects for nuclear power; he was an independent consultant on ERDA/DOE Nuclear Waste Management Programs, Regulatory Affairs, and TMI Lessons-Learned and Management Response. As head of Engineering Services managing A/E and engineering contractors he: developed utility engineering capacity to assume engineering control, engineered and developed document control systems and comprehensive configuration management programs integrating design, construction, operations, training, and document control. He performed NRC regulatory actions for Pilgrim, Vermont Yankee, and Seabrook; he was the NRC State Liaison Officer designee and was on the Massachusetts Governor’s Advisory Council on Radiation Protection producing data demonstrating that low dose radiation is not harmful. He teaches nuclear courses at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA. He is the president of Radiation, Science, and Health an international non-profit of independent experts applying science to health effects to change radiation protection policy in the public interest. Mr. Muckerheide was the co-director (1997-2006) of The Center for Nuclear Technology and Society at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA which conducts research and education on public policies and the benefits and costs of nuclear technologies on public decision processes that fail to make effective decisions on objective technical and public interest analyses.
Feinendegen, Ludwig Emil, M.D. Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Biology. Education: Cologne University, Germany, M.D. 1947-52. - Postgraduate medical training in Germany and USA, 1952-58 (Ventnor Foundation 1953-55). Current Position: Professor (emeritus), Nuclear Medicine, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, 1993- . - Research Collaborator, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA, 1998-. Research Areas: Molecular nuclear medicine, radiation-biology. - More than 670 publications including book chapters, monograph, textbook.
Professional Employment: Research
Associate 1958-1963, Research Collaborator, 1963-1993, Senior Scientist and
Research Associate 1993-98, Research Collaborator 1998-Present, Brookhaven
National Laboratory
Professional Affiliations (selection):
Northrhine-Westfalian Academy of Sciences, Düsseldorf, Germany; 1971-Present
Dr. Belz studied Agricultural Engineering with specialization in plant production at the University of Hohenheim (1992-1998), in Stuttgart, Germany. Her diploma thesis dealt with the release of phytotoxins from plant mulches and its use for practical weed control. This was the first time she encounted with dose-response studies and the phenomenon of hormesis caused by plant phytotoxins. Her diploma thesis was awarded with the ‘Wilhelm-Rimpau-Award’ of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) in 2000. From 1999-2004 she worked on her doctoral thesis at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Weed Science, on biochemical plant interference mediated by crop produced phytotoxins against weeds and its use for weed control. This was the second time she got into contact with hormesis as some of the crop plant metabolites involved stimulated weed growth at low doses. Her doctoral research was awarded with the ‘Rice Award’ of the International Allelopathy Society (IAS) in 2002. Since she finished her thesis in 2004 she has been a research scientist and lecturer at the University of Hohenheim, Department of Weed Science. Her research focus is still natural plant metabolites and their use for weed control, including biochemical interference of crops against weeds, biochemical interference of invasive weed species and its contribution to invasiveness, as well as mathematical modeling of the biological effects. As some of the plant metabolites involved in these interactions show hormesis, she started to work on hormesis in plants induced by natural phytotoxins or their mixtures and the modeling of such effects in 2005. Since that time, she has published several original papers on her research of hormesis in plant biology including hormetic effects in allelopathy research and in mixtures. Her current research focus is the variability of hormetic effects depending on environmental conditions and the hormetic mode of action of a natural phytotoxin.
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