EMGS Award Winner Andre Nussenzweig, PhD This award recognizes outstanding research contributions in the area of environmental mutagenesis. Dr. Andre Nussenzweig is a Distinguished Investigator and the Laboratory Branch Chief at the Laboratory of Genome Integrity of the National Cancer Institute.   Over the last 20 years, Dr. Nussenzweig has made groundbreaking discoveries concerning the causes and consequences of genetic instability. Dr. Nussenzweig's body of work ranges from proving that a core histone protein (H2AX) functions as a tumor suppressor to implicating DNA damage response proteins as paradoxical promoters of leukemias.

Alexander Hollaender Award Winner Bevin P. Engelward, ScD This award recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of the principles and techniques of environmental mutagenesis to the protection of human health.   Dr. Bevin Engelward is a professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, the Director of the MIT Superfund Research Program and has served as Deputy Director of the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Engelward is celebrated as a leader in the development of novel platforms for the quantification of DNA damage, DNA repair and cytotoxicity in human cells. Her publications have focused largely upon the essential relationships between DNA damage and repair pathways, and human susceptibility to disease.