Copper 2022 Sorrento

Awards Committee

Members of the 2022 Awards Committee are Valeria Culotta, Ute Kraemer, and Simone Ciofi Baffoni. The committee is soliciting nominations of participants  for each of the following three special awards which will be presented during our Closing Banquet.

Arturo Leone Young Investigator Award: This award is named in honor of Professor Arturo Leone, an Italian copper biologist who investigated the cellular and molecular basis of copper metabolism. Professor Leone was a founder of the International Copper Meetings and was very supportive of young scientists entering the field. This award recognizes a young investigator who has not yet been promoted to the rank of Full Professor or equivalent, who has great promise to make long term contributions the field of copper biology, biochemistry, chemistry, and who currently holds or will soon obtain an independent faculty position.

Previous recipients of the Leone Young Investigator Award:  Scot Leary, Manuel Gonzalez-Guerrero, Amit Reddi, Simone Ciofi-Baffoni, Helena Öhrvik, Kevin Waldron

David A. Danks Award for Distinguished Research on Copper Homeostasis and its Disorders: Dr. David Danks was an Australian clinician-scientist who made key contributions to our understanding of human diseases of copper homeostasis such as Menkes disease. This award recognizes an investigator who has made significant contributions to our understanding of copper metabolism and who has had a long-term commitment to the vitality of the field of copper research.

Previous recipients of the David Danks Award:  Julian Mercer, Dennis Thiele, Dennis Winge, Valeria Culotta, Thomas O’ Halloran, Sabeeha Merchant, James Camakaris, Svetlana Lutsenko

Ivano Bertini Award: Professor Ivano Bertini, of Florence, Italy was an outstanding bioinorganic chemist, structural biologist, and system biologist whose research illuminated mechanisms of cuproproteins and established new paradigms for intracellular copper trafficking. This award recognizes a mid-career or senior investigator whose work at the basic science level has elucidated fundamental aspects of copper biology at the biochemical, bioinorganic, genetic, cell biology or organism physiology level.

Previous recipients of the Ivano Bertini Award:  Lucia Banci, Amy Rosenzweig, Alejandro Vila, Valeria Culotta