Dr. Karen Gale receiving 2003
AWIS-Bethesda mentoring award
from Dr. Meredith Temple-O'Connor.
Dr. Joan Schwartz presenting the
2003 AWIS-Bethesda mentoring
award to Dr. Susan Gottesman.
Gale, Gottesman Win Mentoring Awards
by Edith Wilson Miles
The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Bethesda Chapter announced
March 20 that its Annual Awards for Excellence in Mentoring would be
awarded
to Dr. Karen Gale and to Dr. Susan Gottesman. The awards are in
recognition
and appreciation of outstanding mentoring of young scientists. Drs.
Gale
and Gottesman are both excellent scientists who have served as mentors
and role models to students and colleagues.
Karen Gale is a Professor of Pharmacology at Georgetown University.
She is an excellent teacher and has trained over one hundred thesis
students,
postdoctoral fellows, undergraduates, and high school students. One way
she mentors scientists is by teaching a course entitled "Survival
Skills
and Ethics for Emerging Scientists". Many of her students have
published
extensively and won awards.
Susan Gottesman is Chief of the Biochemical Genetics Section in the
Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the National Cancer Institute at
NIH.
Susan has acted as a mentor for both postdoctoral fellows and
predoctoral
trainees for the past 26 years. She has also had a series of high
school,
college, and medical school students in her lab. Many of her trainees
have
remained in science and are now running their own
laboratories.
(8/2A09; 496-2763; EdithM@intra.niddk.nih.gov),
Scientist Emeritus and Chair of the AWIS Mentoring Committee
