Dr Lei Shi wins the 2006 Marie Curie Award

Dr Lei Shi, M.D. Ph.D., is the winner of the 2006 Marie Curie Award of the Radiation Research Society. Dr Shi is a fellow in Dr. Brunso-Bechtold's laboratory at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr Shi's Marie Curie Award lecture, scheduled for November 6th at 5:55pm at the RRS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, will focus on his work on whole brain irradiation for metastatic brain tumors and long-term radiation-induced brain injury in a rodent model. Dr Shi will also give an oral presentation titled "Changes in the composition of NMDA receptors in hippocampal CA1 are associated with radiation-induced spatial learning and memory impairment" at mini symposium 19 (Normal Tissue Response to Radiation) on Wednesday, November 8th, at 10:15AM. The members of the SIT Committee will produce an audio interview to Dr. Shi and publish it on the website of the Society after the Annual Meeting.