| Residents’
Research Essay Contest Award Recipients Honored
ichael K. Cahalan, M.D., Chair of the Committee on
Research, has announced that the committee will award
prizes for the following three entries in the ASA
2005 Residents’ Research Essay Contest:
First Prize
Edmund H. Jooste, M.B., Ch.B., Columbia University,
New York, New York, for “Rapacuronium Augments
Acetylcholine-Induced Bronchoconstriction Via Positive
Allosteric Interactions at the M3 Muscarinic Receptor.”
Second Prize
Peter Nagele, M.D., Medical University of Vienna,
Vienna, Austria, for “Xenon Acts by Inhibition
of Non-NMDA Receptor Mediated Glutamatergic Neurotransmission
in Caenorhabditis elegans.”
Third Prize
Bettina Jungwirth, M.D., Universitat Munchen, Munchen,
Germany, for “Xenon Impairs Neurocognitive
and Histologic Outcome Following Cardiopulmonary
Bypass Combined With Cerebral Air Embolism in the
Rat.”
Recipients will receive a plaque during the ASA Annual
Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, October
24, at 9 a.m. during the House of Delegates meeting
in the New Orleans Marriott.
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