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Friedrich Luft, Ph.D., second from right, with Irving H. Zucker, Ph.D., chairman of the UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, right, and Dr. and Mrs. Donald McIntyre, was the recipient of the 2009 A. Ross McIntyre Award. Dr. McIntyre is the son of the award’s name sake, Dr. A. Ross McIntyre. |
Dr. Luft, professor of medicine and director of the experimental
and clinical research center at the Max-Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin and chief of nephrology and hypertension at the HELIOS Hospital, Berlin-Buch, Germany, was honored for this expertise and contributions in the field of hypertension research.
The award is named for Dr. A. Ross McIntyre, who served as chairman of the UNMC Department of Physiology and Pharmacology from 1935 to 1967.
The McIntyre Award was established in 1972 to recognize individuals who make original and innovative contributions in a scientific field related to medicine or medical education.
Dr. Luft joins a distinguished list of McIntyre Award Winners, including:
- Former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1973);
- Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Neil Butler, M.D. (1977);
- UNMC’s Joseph Gilmore, Ph.D. (1986); and
- Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D. (1994).