May 11, 2006

Honors

Glenn Ramsey, M.D., associate professor of pathology at the Feinberg School of Medicine and medical director of the blood bank at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, has been appointed to a three-year term to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Blood Safety and Availability.

The advisory committee makes general recommendations to Health and Human Services on broad issues involving the U.S. blood supply.

Ramsey’s primary research interests are blood banking and immunohematology, with focus on the challenging transfusion problems of organ transplantation, and, in particular, liver transplants. He also serves on a national blood banking task force, which prepares for and responds to disasters and acts of terrorism.

Erwin Goldberg, professor of biochemistry, molecular biology and cell biology, will receive an honorary degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton commencement ceremonies May 20.

Goldberg will be awarded the degree and be the speaker at the Graduate School commencement ceremony.

A reproductive biologist, Goldberg has sought to extend basic observations from the laboratory to the bedside throughout his career. His landmark observation that there is a unique enzyme (LDH-C4, lactate dehydrogenase) in the testis is a foundation for understanding how sperm are produced and became the basis for many later studies on testis gene expression.

In recent years, he and his students cloned and sequenced the LDH-C gene, also identifying the regulatory regions involved in specific gene activation.