The Webster Jee Young Investigator Award is presented to individuals who submitted excellent abstracts to ASBMR or ORS annual meetings, or the International Conference on Osteoporosis and Bone Research (ICOBR). Webster S. S. Jee, Ph.D. was born June 25,1925 in Oakland, California. He received his baccalaureate degree (1949) and M.A. (1951) in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. Between 1943 and 1946, he served as a Navigator on B-17 in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War II. He is Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology & Anatomy at the University of Utah, and an Honorary Professor and Honorary Director of Bone Biology Laboratory, Guangdong Medical College, China. Dr. Jee was the Founder and Chairman of the Sun Valley International Hard Tissue Workshops, and a co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions. He is also a recipient of a number of awards including the Highest Achievement Award in Bone Morphometry, ASBMR Excellence in Mentorship Award, and University of Utah Merit of Honor Award. Most importantly, Dr. Jee is the Founder of the ICMRS (former ICHTS) and the ICOBR.
To recognize the achievement of young outstanding ICMRS members, three Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards will be given at the ASBMR and ORS meetings, and 20 for the ICOBR. The winners will be announced during the membership meeting and each awardee will receive an award certificate/plaque and a check. All applicants are asked to attend the meeting because the award will only be given to the recipients who attend. Applicants may find details about the ICMRS and Membership Meeting on the ICMRS website: http://www.icmrs.net.
1) Current ICMRS member (You can join us here )
2) First author of accepted ORS or ASBMR abstract for annual meeting
3) Current graduate and/or medical student; Post-doc or equivalent; Junior faculty and professionals who received PhD or MD in less than 5 years
4) Has not received the award previously
5) Applicants are not required to be of the Chinese heritage
The accepted abstract in both blind and un-blind formats should be submitted to the following e-mail address: icmrs@icmrs.net. All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed in blind by a review panel appointed by the ICMRS Program Committee. The top scored abstracts will be selected as the winners. As a general rule, no more than one award will be given to the applicants from the same research laboratory/group.
Yuantao Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Mingyue Fan, Drexel University
Jiawei Lu, University of Pennsylvania
Yiyang Ma, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Medicine
Donghao Gan, Southern University of Science and Technology
Bryan Kwok, Drexel University
Peng Liao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital;
Mingjue Chen, Southern University of Science and Technology;
Delin Liu, The University of Western Australia;
Jun Sun, Weill Cornell Medicine;
Baohong Shi, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University.
Mengtian Fan, Chongqing Medical University;
Tao Gui, University of Pennsylvania;
Xi Lin, University of Rochester Medical Center.
Xiaohao Wu, Southern University of Science and Technology
Yuhan Xia, Cornell Medical College and Hospital for Special Surgery
Gongsheng Yuan, University of Pennsylvania
Zhongyang Lv, Nanjing University
Xiaoan Wei, Zhejiang University
Zeyu Zheng, Zhejiang University
Zheng Wang, Texas A&M College of Dentistry
Wei Yu, University of Pennsylvania
Rui Hua, University of Texas Health San Antonio
Lingxin Zhu, University of MichiganShuangfei Ni, Johns Hopkins University
Lutian Yao, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth R. Kahle, Drexel University
Xiangjiao Yi, University of Rochester
Jun Ying, Washington University
Jiayu Wei, Zhejiang University and Brown University
Yulong Wei, University of Pennsylvania
Jiahui Huang, Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital
Wenguang Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Yunshu Wu, Sichuan University
Kazuki Inoue, Hospital for Special Surgery
Yujiao Han, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Robert Tower, University of Pennsylvania
Luqiang Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Aubryanna Hettinghouse, New York University Medical Center
Jun Li, Rush University
Wei-Ju Tseng, University of Pennsylvania
Chao Liang, Hong Kong Baptist University
Qing Li, Drexel University
Yun Gao, Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Wanqing Xie, Rush University
Min Jin, Texas A&M Balor College of Dentistry
Yanzhi Liu, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Guangdong Medical University
Shao-wei Wang, Brown University
Huan-xiong Chen, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wei Tong, University of Pennsylvania
Tianqian Hui, Rush University Medical Center
Haoruo Jia, University of Pennsylvania
Changjun Li, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chao Liang, HK Baptist University
Hongchuan Yu, Brown University
Hao Xu, University of Rochester
Shan Li, Rush University Medical Center
Tiao Lin, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Xin Xu, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chandal de Bakker, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Michael Chen, University of Washington
Yan Jing, Baylor College of Dentistry in Texas A&M