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July 19, 2005

Meade Is First Foell Professor

Thomas Meade, professor of chemistry, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, neurobiology and physiology, and radiology, has been named the first Eileen Foell Professor in Cancer Research at Northwestern University.

Meade's research focuses on coordination chemistry and its application in bioinorganic problems that include biological molecular imaging, electron transfer processes and the development of electronic biosensors for the detection of DNA and proteins.

His work, which is supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the National Cancer Institute, is leading to new and more sensitive methods to detect early-stage tumors. He holds more than 50 patents, with 90 more pending.

Meade is the newly elected president of the Society of Molecular Imaging and recently was named the FMC lecturer at Princeton University.

He has delivered a number of other invited lectures, including the Elkin Distinguished Investigators Cancer Lecture at Emory University; Neuroscience Award lecture, Society for Neuro-Oncology; National Academy of Engineering Lecture; Pendergast Lecture, University of Pennsylvania; and the American College of Neuropharmacology Lecture. He received the Caltech Grubstakes Award in 1996 and l998.