(Alexandria, VA)-Marcus M. Reidenberg, MD, Professor, Weill Medical College of Cornell University has been selected by the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) to receive the 2008 Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award in Therapeutics.
The Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award in Therapeutics honors individual scientists for outstanding lifetime contributions to clinical pharmacology and therapeutics. This award recognizes a meritorious career in drug research, excellence or contributions in direct patient care, and a distinguished teaching career. The Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award is named for Washington, DC physician Dr. Oscar Benwood Hunter Sr., whose father and grandfather were also physicians. Hunter was an active ASCPT member who held the offices of secretary and president.
ASCPT will present this prestigious award to Dr. Reidenberg at its Annual Meeting on Saturday, April 5, 2008, in Orlando, Florida. At that time, Dr. Reidenberg will present a lecture entitled, "From Adverse Drug Reactions to Drug Disposition to WHO and Essential Medicines to Our Discipline of Clinical Pharmacology."
Dr. Reidenberg received his undergraduate education at Cornell University. After completing his MD and fellowship program at Temple University, he served as Senior Medical Officer at the US Naval (delete air) Station in Trinidad. He then returned to Temple University where he completed his residency. He spent a year at St. Mary's Hospital in London where he did further study on drug metabolism while training with Professor
R.T. Williams and then continued his research with Professor Folke Sjoqvist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden where his studies continued to focus on clinical pharmacology. When he returned to the United States he continued his career at Temple University before accepting his current position as Professor of Pharmacology,
Medicine and Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He also served as an Attending Physician and Visiting Physician at New York Hospital and Rockefeller University, respectively, before ending his personal practice of medicine in
2006.
Dr. Reidenberg has had a distinguished teaching career. The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics awarded him the Harry Gold Award for Research and Teaching Excellence in Clinical Pharmacology in 1999 and in 2000 the Weill Medical College of Cornell University honored him with their Award for Teaching Excellence. In 1993 the Departmental Associates of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center established a program to provide minority college students with summer research opportunities and named it the Marcus M. Reidenberg Gateways to Science Program in honor of Dr. Reidenberg.
Dr. Reidenberg has published more that 130 original research articles in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He served as Editor of ASCPT's journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics from 1985 through 2001. He has been a member of the World Health Organization's Expert Panel on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines since 1989, served on its Expert Committees, and was elected chair of the Expert Committee in 2007.
Dr. Reidenberg has served ASCPT in a number of leadership roles over his 40 years of membership, most notably as President of the Society in 1984. He was also the recipient of ASCPT's Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award in 1981 and the Henry W. Elliott Distinguished Service Award in 1999.
The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) is the leading forum for the exchange, development, and integration of translational science into the drug development continuum from discovery t6 safe and effective medication use. Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, ASCPT was founded in 1900 and has over 2,100 members worldwide.