The outstanding paper by an Associate Member was established in 2016. The prize will be awarded to three Associate Members (one in each track) for the most outstanding published paper within each track during the last year as determined by the PRS Council. Each award recipient will be provided with free registration for the next PRS Annual Meeting.
Eligibility
- You must be a first or last author on the manuscript
- The manuscript must have been published in the current year or previous year
- Accepted, but not yet published papers will NOT qualify.
Current Award Recipients
2022
Eileen Chang, PhD
Chang EI, Hetrick B, Wesolowski SR, McCurdy CE, Rozance PJ, Brown LD. A Two-Week Insulin Infusion in Intrauterine Growth Restricted Fetal Sheep at 75% Gestation Increases Skeletal Myoblast Replication but Did Not Restore Muscle Mass or Increase Fiber Number. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 Nov 30;12:785242. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.785242. eCollection 2021.PMID: 34917036
2022
Ariel Salas, MD
Salas AA, Jerome M, Finck A, Razzaghy J, Chandler-Laney P, Carlo WA. Body composition of extremely preterm infants fed protein-enriched, fortified milk: a randomized trial. Pediatr Res. 2022 Apr;91(5):1231-1237. doi: 10.1038/s41390-021-01628-x. Epub 2021 Jun 28.PMID: 34183770
2022
Vivek Shukla, MD
Shukla VV, Bann CM, Ramani M, Ambalavanan N, Peralta-Carcelen M, Hintz SR, Higgins RD, Natarajan G, Laptook AR, Shankaran S, Carlo WA. Predictive Ability of 10-Minute Apgar Scores for Mortality and Neurodevelopmental Disability. Pediatrics. 2022 Apr 1;149(4):e2021054992. doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-054992.PMID: 35296895
Past Award Recipients
2021
Elizabeth Enninga, PhD – Basic Track
Enninga EAL, Raber P, Quinton RA, Ruano R, Ikumi N, Gray CM, Johnson EL, Chakraborty R, Kerr SE. Maternal T Cells in the Human Placental Villi Support an Allograft Response during Noninfectious Villitis. J Immunol. 2020 Jun 1;204(11):2931-2939. doi: 10.4049/jimmunol.1901297. Epub 2020 Apr 22. PMID: 32321754; PMCID: PMC7307888.
2021
Beth Pineles, MD, PhD – OB/GYN Track
Pineles B, Mani A, Sura L, Rossignol C, Albayram M, Weiss MD, Goetzl L. Neuronal exosome proteins: novel biomarkers for predicting neonatal response to therapeutic hypothermia. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2021 May 21:fetalneonatal-2020-321096. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2020-321096. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34021027.
2021
Sarah Cilvik, MD PhD – Pediatric Track
Cilvik SN, Wesolowski SR, Anthony RV, Brown LD, Rozance PJ. Late gestation fetal hyperglucagonaemia impairs placental function and results in diminished fetal protein accretion and decreased fetal growth. J Physiol. 2021 Jul;599(13):3403-3427. doi: 10.1113/JP281288. Epub 2021 May 10. PMID: 33878802; PMCID: PMC8249343.
2019
Chi Zhou, PhD – Basic Track
Chi Zhou, Qin Yan, Qing-Yun Zou, Xin-Qi Zhong, Chanel T. Tyler, Ronald R. Magness, Ian M. Bird, Jing Zheng. Sexual Dimorphisms of Preeclampsia-Dysregulated Transcriptomic Profiles and Cell Function in Fetal Endothelial Cells. Hypertension. 2019 Jul;74(1):154-163. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.12569. Epub 2019 Jun 3. PMID: 31154903; PMCID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31154903/ PMC6561818.
2019
Jacquelin Parchem, MD – OB/GYN Track
Parchem JG, Kanasaki K, Kanasaki M, Sugimoto H, Xie L, Hamano Y, Lee SB, Gattone VH, Parry S, Strauss JF, Garovic VD, McElrath TF, Lu KH, Sibai BM, LeBleu VS, Carmeliet P, Kalluri R. Loss of placental growth factor ameliorates maternal hypertension and preeclampsia in mice. J Clin Invest. 2018 Nov 1;128(11):5008-5017. doi: 10.1172/JCI99026. Epub 2018 Oct 8. PMID: 30179860; PMCID: PMC6205389. https://mayoclinic.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/loss-of-placental-growth-factor-ameliorates-maternal-hypertension
2019
Amy Hair – Pediatric Track
Ford SL, Lohmann P, Preidis GA, Gordon PS, O’Donnell A, Hagan J, Venkatachalam A, Balderas M, Luna RA, Hair AB. Improved feeding tolerance and growth are linked to increased gut microbial community diversity in very-low-birth-weight infants fed mother’s own milk compared with donor breast milk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 Apr 1;109(4):1088-1097. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz006. PMID: 30982856; PMCID: PMC6462428. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30982856/
2018
Elaine Shelton, PhD – Basic Track
Shelton EL, Waleh N, Plosa EJ, Benjamin JT, Milne, GL, Hopper CW, Ehinger N, Poole S, Brown N, Seidner S, McCurnin D, Reese J, Clyman RI. Effects of antenatal betamethasone on preterm human and mouse ductus arteriosus: comparison with baboon data. Pediatric Research. 2018 July6. doi: 10.1038/s41390-018-0006-z. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-018-0006-z PMID: 29976969
2018
Karen Gibbins, MD – OB/Gyn Track
Gibbins KJ, Gibson-Corley KN, Brown AS, Wieben M, Law RC, Fung CM. Effects of excess thromboxane A2 on placental development and nutrient transporters in a Mus muscles model of fetal growth restriction. Bill Retrod.2018 May 1; 98(5):695-704. dos: 10.1093/biolre/ioy006 https://academic.oup.com/biolreprod/article/98/5/695/4813325 PMID: 29351577
2018
David McCulley, MD – Pediatric Track
McCulley DJ, Wienhold MD, Hines EA, Hacker TA, Rogers A, Pewowaruk RJ, Zewdu R, Chesler NC, Selleri L, Sun X. PBX transcription factors drive pulmonary vascular adaptation to birth. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 2018 Feb 1;128(2):655-667. doi: 10.1172/JCI93395. https://www.jci.org/articles/view/93395 PMID: 29251627.
2017
Abbie Johnson, PhD – Basic Track
Johnson AC- Nagle KJ- Tremble SM- Cipolla MJ. The Contribution of Normal Pregnancy to Eclampsia. Published in PLoS ONE July 28 2015; 10(7): e0133953. 10.1371/journal.pone.0133953 PMID: 26218425
2017
Robert Dietz, MD – Pediatric Track
RM Dietz – G Deng – JE Orfila – X Hui – RJ Traystman – PS Herson. Therapeutic hypothermia protects against ischemia-induced impairment of synaptic plasticity following juvenile cardiac arrest in sex-dependent manner. 0306-4522/c 2016 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Neuroscience 2016-06 – 14 – Volume 325 – Pages 132-141 – Copyright 2016 IBRO 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.03.052 PMID: 27033251
2017
Erin Zinkhan, MD – Pediatric Track
R. Blair Dodson – Thomas A. Miller – Kyle Powers – Yueqin Yang – Baifeng Yu – Kurt H. Alberting – Erin K. Zinkhan. Intrauterine growth restriction influences vascular remodeling and stiffening in the Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 412 (2015) 73-84.weanling rat more than sex or diet. Am J Physio Hearth Circ Physiol 312: H250-H264 – 2017. First published November 23 2016; doi: 10.1152/ajppheart.00610.2016. 10.1152/ajpheart.00610.2016 PMID: 27881387
2016
Derek Boeldt, PhD – Basic Trac
Derek S. Boeldt – Mary A. Grummer – FuXian Yi – Ronald R. Magness – Ian M. Bird Phosphorylation of Ser-279/282 and Tyr-265 positions on Cx43 as possible mediators of VEGF-165 inhibition of pregnancy-adapted Ca2+ burst function in ovine uterine artery endothelial cells. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology – Vol. 412 – 5 September 2015 – pages 73-84 10.1016/j.mce.2015.05.030 PMID: 26033246
2016
James Wynn, MD – Pediatric Track
James Lawrence Wynn – Chris S. Wilson – Jacket Hawiger – Philip O. Scumpia – Andrew F Marshall – Jin-Hua Liu – Irina Zharkikh – Hector R. Wong – Patrick Lahni – John J. Benjamin – Erin J. Plosa – Jorn-Hendrik Weitkamp – Edward R. Sherwood – Lyle L. Moldawer – Ricardo Ungaro – Henry V. Baker – M. Cecilia Lopez- Steven J. McElroy – Natacha Colliou – Mansour Mohamadzaheh – and Daniel Jensen Moore. Targeting IL–17A attenuates neonatal sepsis mortality induced by IL-18. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 May 10;113(19):E2627-35.) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27114524 PMID: 27114524
2016
Nicole Marshall, MD, MCR – OB/Gyn Track
Marshall NE – Murphy EJ – King JC – Haas EK – Lim JY – Wiedrick J – Thornburg KL – Purnell JQ. Comparison of multiple methods to measure maternal fat mass in late gestation. Am J Clin Nutr 2016 Apr. 103(4): 1055-63. doi 10.3945/ajcn.115.113464. Epub 2016 Feb 17. 10.3945/ajcn.115.113464 PMID: 2688714