W. Gray (Jay) Jerome, PhD, professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is the 2024 recipient of the Distinguished Scientist — Biological Sciences Award from the Microscopy Society of America.
The Distinguished Scientist Award, which will be presented during the society’s annual meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, this summer, honors “preeminent senior scientists for a long-standing record of achievement in the field of microscopy and microanalysis.”
Jerome, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2001 and who has published more than 100 scientific papers during his 40-plus-year career, was recognized by the society for “seminal observations on how altered cellular lipid metabolism influences various diseases, most notably cardiovascular disease.”
“Dr. Jerome has long been a leader in the field of microscopy and microanalysis and is deserving of this honor,” said Alice Coogan, M.D., the Dorothy B. and Theodore R. Austin Professor and chair of the Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.
A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Heart Association and the Microscopy Society of America, Jerome correlates microscopy and biochemistry evidence in his investigations of lipid metabolism and vascular biology to determine how changes in the vasculature can affect heart disease, stroke and cancer.