Janos Szöllősi

Janos Szöllősi studied physical chemistry and obtained his M.Sc. in 1976. In 1980 he received his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Faculty of Medicine (University of Debrecen). Post-doctoral fellowships followed, first in Göttingen (Germany) with Thomas M. Jovin (1982/83), then at the University of California in San Francisco with Mack J. Fulwyler (1985/86), Larry J. Marton, Burt G. Feuerstein (1988-90), and Fred M. Waldman (1994).

Since 1976 he has had a permanent position in the Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, University of Debrecen, Hungary, first as an assistant lecturer and lately as full professor (1997). Since 1999 he has been the Chairman of the Biophysics Section of the Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology at the University of Debrecen.

Robert F. Murphy

Robert F. Murphy earned an A. B. in Biochemistry from Columbia College in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. He was a Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Foundation postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Charles R. Cantor at Columbia University from 1979 through 1983, after which he became an Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation shortly after joining the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1983 and has received research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Arthritis Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He has co-edited two books and two special journal issues on "Cell and Molecular Imaging," and published over 120 research papers. He is currently Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, Voting Faculty Member in the Center for Automated Learning and Discovery in the School of Computer Science, and Director (with Jelena Kovacevic) of the Center for Biomedical Image Informatics at Carnegie Mellon. He also directs (with Ivet Bahar) the joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology.

Movement as Prevention and Health (Rome, Italy, 25-28 September, 2006)

Modulation of free radicals concentration

The registration deadline has been postponed till June 16^th

we are glad to announce the International meeting on Movement as Prevention and Health to be held in Rome-Italy, 23-28 September, 2006. The meeting has been endorsed by ISAC, and will include an ISAC satellite workshop in which cutting edge flow and image methods for free radical analysis will be presented.

Click here for details. Download the brochure in PDF format from here. For more information contact Laura Teodori at: teodori@casaccia.enea.it.

ISAC Election

Voting Results  for election are as follows:

Note: those indicated as "Appointed" were appointed by council to serve the lst 2 years of the terms of Alex Nakeef (elected to Treasurer) and Bob Murphy (Elected to President-Elect)

Thanks for all those who voted