NIDCD-Supported Scientists Receive Presidential Awards
May 21, 2004
Three NIDCD-supported scientists have won the highest government honor
for outstanding scientists or engineers who are beginning independent
careers, the
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
This award highlights extraordinary potential for scientific leadership.
"Scientific leadership recognized early and given support and visibility
can not only ensure an increasingly productive career trajectory for the
individual, but it will ensure many benefits to the public through discovery,"
said James F. Battey, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute
on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), on learning of
the awards. 
- Andrew James Griffith, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Griffith is currently the Acting Chief on Gene Structure and Function
and the Acting Chief of the Hearing Section, Division of Intramural
Research, NIDCD. His laboratory identifies and characterizes genes,
molecules, and mechanisms underlying normal hearing and hereditary deafness,
using molecular biologic, genetic, and physiologic approaches and both
human and animal models. Dr. Griffith's medical degree is from the Yale
School of Medicine. His Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
is from Yale University. He has been with NIDCD since 1998. Learn
more about Dr. Griffith's research.
- Dana Boatman, Ph.D., CCC-A
Dr. Boatman is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Otolaryngology
and is the Director, Central Auditory Clinic, Departments of Neurology
and Otolaryngology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has been a member
of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine since 1996. Her primary area
of research is on the human central auditory system, focusing on the
neural bases of complex sound processing in children with neurodevelopmental
disorders. Dr. Boatman's Ph.D. is from the University of Pennsylvania.
She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cognitive Neurology at Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. Read
more about Dr. Boatman's research.
- Richard Walker, Ph.D.
Dr. Walker was appointed as an Assistant Professor to the Oregon Hearing
Research Center (ORC) in 2002 with a joint appointment in the Vollum
Institute. His primary work is in mechanisms of mechanosensory transduction
in Drosophila. His research combines two approaches, the molecular-genetic
pathway to identify genes involved in mechanosensory transduction and
an electrophysiological approach to understanding both the wild-tupe
and mutant mechanosensory responses. Dr. Walker earned his Ph.D. in
Neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
His post-doctoral fellowship was at the University of San Diego. Read
more about Dr. Walker's research interests.
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