2006 O’Donnell Awards Recipients

The inaugural 2006 O’Donnell Awards recipients include: medicine awardee Dr. Gerard Karsenty for his work demonstrating that in animals, beta-blockers can reverse the course of osteoporosis; engineering awardee Dr. Lynn Loo for pioneering the field of using specially-designed plastics in conducting electricity with potential applications in medicine and electronics; and science awardee Dr. Michael Rosen for researching how cells maintain their shape as they move through the body, which could have implications in development of drugs that alter the behavior of abnormal cells.