2009 O’Donnell Awards Recipients
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2009 O’Donnell Award recipients Brian Korgel, Rama Ranganathan and Brendan Lee.
The 2009 O’Donnell Award recipients include: medicine awardee Dr. Brendan Lee for identifying the mutant gene in numerous skeletal dysplasias and demonstrating that deficiency of prolyl-3-hydroxylation activity as a cause of recessive osteogenesis imperfecta; engineering awardee Dr. Brian Korgel for his invention of the use of size-selected metal nanocrystals as seeds to grow semiconductor nanowires with controlled nanoscale diameter; and science awardee Dr. Rama Ranganathan for developing an approach for understanding the evolutionary design of protein structure and function.
Medicine
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Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Baylor College of Medicine
National Academy of Medicine: 2013
Engineering
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Brian Korgel, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
National Academy of Engineering: 2018
Science
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Rama Ranganathan, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
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