2008 O’Donnell Awards Recipients
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2008 O’Donnell Award recipients Edward Marcotte, Beth Levine and Jennifer West.
The 2008 O’Donnell Award recipients include: medicine awardee Dr. Beth Levine for work in the field of autophagy and identification of the first mammalian autophagy gene, beclin 1; engineering awardee Dr. Jennifer L. West for pioneering research in biomaterials engineering and advancing the fields of tissue engineering and bionanotechnology; science awardee Dr. Edward M. Marcotte for exceptional contributions to functional genomics and proteomics; and technology innovation Sameer P. Pendharkar for research related to designing highly efficient and cost-efficient semiconductor devices and high voltage technology for next generation analog and high power systems.
Medicine
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Beth C. Levine, M.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
National Academy of Sciences: 2013
Engineering
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Jennifer L. West, Ph.D.
Rice University
National Academy of Engineering: 2016
National Academy of Medicine: 2023
Science
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Edward M. Marcotte, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
Technology Innovation
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Sameer P. Pendharkar
Texas Instruments
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