EEMS Young Scientist of the Year Award
The standard of nominations for the award this year was very high, and in fact it became impossible to separate 2 of the candidates. It would have been unfair to pick one candidate over the other, and therefore (not for the first time) we decided to make 2 awards. On behalf of the Society we would therefore like to congratulate Haico van Attikum (University of Leiden, the Netherlands) and Shareen Doak (University of Wales, Swansea) on being the joint winners for 2009. Dr van Attikum received his certificate and presented his award lecture at the ICEM in Florence. Unfortunately Dr Doak had to withdraw from ICEM due to family health issues, but we hope she will be able to receive her award and give her award lecture at next year’s EEMS meeting in Oslo.
Frits Sobels Award
We are delighted to announce that former President and long-time stalwart of the EEMS, Dr Ilse-Dore Adler, is this year’s winner of the Frits Sobels award. Unfortunately, also due to health reasons, Dr Adler was unable to attend ICEM, but we wish her a speedy recovery and hope she will be well enough to receive her award and give her award lecture in Oslo next year.
In her absence it was very touching to receive the following message from Dr Adler to all her friends:
Dear friends and colleagues of EEMS, I feel greatly honoured to be chosen for this year’s Frits Sobels Award and I wish to thank the Award Committee for selecting me and GUM for putting up my name.
With very fond memories I think of Frits whom I have known and come to admire and love over the years from when we first met in Heidelberg in 1968 to 1993 when he passed away. It is a bit disturbing that a new generation of scientists has grown into EEMS over the past 16 years that never met this founder of EEMS and the journal Mutation Research with his demanding and inspiring, humorous and warm hearted personality. I add a photo of Frits on a camel at a meeting in Cairo successfully organized by Wagida Anwar, William Au and Radim Sram. Through his personal interest in each and everyone of us this Society uniquely grew to be a large international family and I am very happy to be a family member.
Unfortunately, my present state of health, or rather the contrary, does not permit me to travel to Florence, receive the award and present a lecture. It is especially sad that I miss the chance to see so many colleagues from all over the world during this combined EEMS and ICEM event.
I wish you all a most fruitful meeting with many new informations, plenty of face-to-face discussions, especially between the senior and the young colleagues, and the generation of ideas that bring our field of science a step forward again. I feel that Mutation Research is still of utmost importance to the human society and the environment.
With kind personal regards
Ilse-Dore Adler
Last updated 8 Dec 2009
