National Institute on Drug Abuse
Director's Report to the National Advisory Council on Drug
Abuse
May, 1997
Grantee Honors
Dr. Klaus Miczek, the Moses Hunt Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry,
and Pharmacology at Tufts University and a long term NIDA grantee studying
aggression and social stress, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order
of Merit, the highest award Germany bestows on a civilian. The award was
presented in recognition of Dr. Miczek's scientific achievements and his
contributions in fostering German-American relations. In addition to being
director of the psychopharmacology research laboratory and editor of Psychopharmacology,
Dr. Miczek is coordinator at the German Saturday School for children aged
4-17 and is a member of a German literary organization. The award was presented
by the German consul general at a ceremony held on January 29, 1997 that
was attended by about 100 people including many of Klaus's colleagues from
the Boston area.
Dr. Nicholas S. Bodor, graduate research professor of pharmaceutics and
executive director of the Center for Drug Discovery of the University of
Florida College of Pharmacy, will be honored at the 98th AACP Annual Meeting
awards banquet in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 15 as the 1997 recipient
of the AACP Volwiler Research Achievement Award. The AACP Board of Directors
selected Dr. Bodor for the Association's premier research award, which is
given annually to recognize outstanding research conducted by a pharmaceutical
scientist/educator.
NIDA grantee Dr. Howard Liddle of the Center for Family Studies, Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of Miami, was the 1996
Recipient of the American Family Therapy Academy Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Family Therapy Research. The award was presented in recognition
of his research on family-focused therapy for adolescent drug abuse.
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