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Awards & Career Milestones

2022 VA Tech Sprint Winners Revealed at Golden Envelope Ceremony

2022 VA Tech Sprint Winners Revealed at Golden Envelope Ceremony The VA National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) named the 2022 AI Tech Sprint winners at the competition’s Golden Envelope Ceremony held on February 22, 2023, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. 03-09-2023



VA Data Scientist Receives Fed 100 Award for Using AI to Improve Veterans' Health Care

VA Data Scientist Receives Fed 100 Award for Using AI to Improve Veterans' Health Care VA data scientist Timothy S. Strebel was recognized for developing an innovative risk model that uses artificial intelligence to calculate the risk of Veteran mortality within 120 days of a COVID-19 diagnosis. 03-06-2023



Senior researcher at Illinois VA Hospital named 2023 VA Magnuson Award winner

Senior researcher at Illinois VA Hospital named 2023 VA Magnuson Award winner Dr. Richard L. Lieber, a senior research career scientist at the Edward Hines, Jr., VA Hospital in Hines, Ill., has received the 2023 Paul B. Magnuson Award for his work to return functional capacity, mobility, and quality of life to Veterans with physical disabilities. 03-03-2023



San Francisco VA chief is first female researcher to earn John B. Barnwell award

San Francisco VA chief is first female researcher to earn John B. Barnwell award Dr. Kristine Yaffe, chief of neuropsychiatry and director of the Memory Evaluation Clinic at the VA San Francisco Health Care System, California, has received the 2022 John B. Barnwell Award for her groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and the effects of risk factors such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on cognitive impairment. 02-21-2023



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Note: Each of the four services of VA Research may note awards and milestones for its investigators on its respective awards page, as per the links immediately below:

Past Major Awards

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1998 - Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D. - nitric oxide

1977 - Andrew W. Schally, Ph.D., M.D.h.c. (Multi), D.Sc.,h.c. - peptide hormone

1977 - Rosalyn Yalow, Ph.D. - radioimmunoassay

Lasker-DeBakey Award

2012 - Thomas Starzl, M.D. - liver transplantation

1996 - Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D. - nitric oxide

1976 - Rosalyn Yalow, Ph.D. - radioimmunoassay

1975 - William Oldendorf, M.D. - computerized tomography

1975 - Andrew Schally, Ph.D., M.D.h.c. (Multi), D.Sc.,h.c. - peptide hormone

1974 - Ludwig Gross, M.D. - leukemia; cancer-causing viruses

1971 - Edward D. Freis, M.D. - drug therapy for hypertension

1963 - Michael E. DeBakey, M.D. - cardiovascular surgery



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