US HUPO has initiated an annual award in memory of Robert J. Cotter.  The first annual award was given in Baltimore at the US HUPO 9th Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD.  In addition US HUPO hosts Poster Awards in two categories --Best Poster presented by a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Best Poster presented by a Graduate Student.

Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award

Bob Cotter was a founding Board Member of US HUPO.  In addition to organizing the very successful 2008 annual conference in Baltimore he served as Treasurer for many years. To honor Bob's legacy as a mentor of young investigators the Board of Directors initiated an annual award in his honor. The first award was presented in 2013 at the annual conference, appropriately in Bob's adopted hometown of Baltimore, MD.  The Board of Directors nominated and selected the first recipient. Future awards will be open to nominations.  Look here for nomination application soon.

2013 Recipient - Rebekah Gundry (Medical College of Wisconsin)

Award Lecture: Cell Surface Chemoproteomics for Capturing States of Human Cardiac Differentiation from Pluripotent Stem Cells

     

Rebekah Gundry (awardee) and Catherine Fenselau Cotter             Rebekah Gundry and Gil Omenn (US HUPO Past President)

Poster Awards - 2013 Recipients

Best Poster - Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sarah Parker (Johns Hopkins University)
Poster Title: Quantitative Comparison of Protein Expression Between Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells of Different Embryonic Lineages of Origin (View Poster)

Best Poster - Graduate Student
Kevin Chandler (Georgetown University)
Poster Title: Characterization of Glycan Microheterogeneity in Serum Glycoprotein ITIH4 (View Poster)