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Elected to President-Elect Position:
Robert Gilies, PhD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Molecular and Functional Imaging
Tampa, FL
Elected to Council Member Postitions:
Dean Sherry, PhD
The University of Texas at Dallas
Dallas, TX
Markus Schwaiger, MD
Universitaet Muenchen,
Muenchen, Germany
Bernd Pichler, PhD
Eberhard-Karls-University
Tuebingen, Germany
Elected to Receive Molecular Imaging Achievement Award:
Roger Tsien, PhD
University of California, San Diego
Tsien Laboratory
Professor Tsien is renowned for revolutionizing the fields of cell biology and neurobiology by allowing scientists to peer inside living cells and watch the behavior of molecules in real time. He is well-known for developing colorful dyes, such as Fura-2, to track the movement of calcium within cells and has genetically modified organisms to produce the molecules that make jellyfish and corals glow, creating fluorescent colors in a dazzling variety of hues. These multicolored fluorescent proteins are used by scientists to track where and when certain genes are expressed in cells or in whole organisms.
In 2004, Tsien was awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine "for his seminal contribution to the design and biological application of novel fluorescent and photolabile molecules to analyze and perturb cell signal transduction." In 2006 he became a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society in the UK.
In 2008, Tsien shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura and Martin Chalfie for "the green fluorescent protein: discovery, expression and development."
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