photo by Dana Johnson
From left, Roger Brent, Ph.D., president and research director of the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, Calif., Alan Aderem, Ph.D., co-founder and director of the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Joel G. Hardman, Ph.D., former chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt, Melvin I. Simon, Ph.D., Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., and Heidi Hamm, Ph.D., current chair of the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt, greet each other at the 14th Annual Joel G. Hardman Student-Invited Pharmacology Forum. During the forum, the 2005 teaching awards were presented to Vsevolod Gurevich, Ph.D., associate professor of Pharmacology, and to Xiaoyon Yin, Ph.D., research fellow.