Ralph S. Quatrano, PhD, dean of the School of Engineering & Applied Science, will receive the Science Leadership Award from the Academy of Science St. Louis April 9, 2015.
The Science Leadership Award recognizes a distinguished individual — not necessarily a scientist — or organization that has played an important leadership role in the development of science and scientists in the St. Louis region.
Quatrano, also the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Biology in the Department of Biology in Arts & Sciences, came to Washington University in 1998 as chair of one of the Department of Biology. In addition to serving as chair, he was director from 2005 to 2007 of the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, a university-wide consortium including medical, engineering and science programs. His research group often collaborates with Washington University School of Medicine researchers as well as with scientists from Monsanto and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Quatrano’s research focuses the mechanisms controlling plant cell and tissue morphogenesis and the gene regulatory networks that control desiccation tolerance in seeds. He became dean of the Washington University School of Engineering & Applied Science July 1, 2010, and will step down as dean June 30, 2015.
Other Washington University award recipients include:
- Steven Teitelbaum, MD, the Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology and head of the Division of Anatomic and Molecular Pathology at the School of Medicine;
- Jennifer K. Lodge, PhD, vice chancellor for research for Washington University and associate dean for research for the School of Medicine;
- Samuel Achilefu, PhD, professor of radiology and radiological sciences and chief of the Optical Radiology Laboratory at the School of Medicine;
- Charles M. Hohenberg, PhD, professor, Department of Physics;
- Gautam Dantas, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology and of biomedical engineering.
For a complete list of award recipients, visit http://www.academyofsciencestl.org/awards/.
