Jordi Folch-Pi Memorial Award for 1994
Dr. Randy McKinnon
Dr. Randy McKinnon
Jordi Folch-Pi Memorial Award for 1994
Dr. Randy McKinnon
Dr. Randy McKinnon
Dr. Randall D. McKinnon was the winner of the 1994 Jordi-Folch-Pi Memorial Award from the American Society of Neurochemistry. Dr. McKinnon's research focus is on growth factors and signal transduction mechanisms regulating glial cell development. Work from Randy's lab has identified roles for FGF, PDGF and TGF controlling oligodendrocyte progenitor cell development, and recent studies have focused on how gradients of PDGF and Netrin direct glial migration in both vertebrate and invertebrate model systems. Randy received his BSc from Queen's University (Kingston, Canada), his PhD in virology from McMaster (Hamilton, Canada) under Frank L. Graham, postdoctoral training in molecular neurobiology at Scripps Clinic (La Jolla, CA) under J. Gregor Sutcliffe and was a Sr. Fellow at NIH Bethesda with Monique Dubois-Dalcq. He is currently Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Piscataway, NJ). He has received Studentship and Fellowship support from the National Cancer Institute of Canada, a Sr. Fellowship from the US National Multiple Sclerosis Society, research awards from the NMSS, from the NIH (NINDS, NIMH), and one of the first State sponsored research grants for Stem Cell biology from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. He has also served on both national and international peer review panels and was the recipient of a 1998 Gallo Award from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and the 2001 Toshiba Exploravision Award from the National Science Teachers Association. Read the National Acadamy of Sciences' biographical memoir of Jordi Folch-Pi by Marjorie B. Lees and Alfred Pope.
Updated 8/27/2007 SL