Robert L. Clarke Award

for Scientic Achievement

Dr. Kenneth Olden

enneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D, L.H.D was recently appointed Founding Dean of the School of Public Health at the City University of New York. He is a former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health and National Toxicology Program in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He held these positions from 1991 to 2005.

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Dr. Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training and has been active in cancer research for almost four decades. He was Director of the Howard University Cancer Center and Professor and Chairman of the Department of Oncology at Howard University Medial School, Washington, D.C. from 1985-1991. Dr. Olden was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University Medical School in Boston from 1970-1974, and was a researcher at the National Cancer Institute of the NIH from 1974-1979.

He has published approximately 200 papers, two of which were among the “One Hundred Most Cited” in 1978-1979 and one was later deemed a “citation classic”. Dr. Olden was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. He was awarded the Meritorious Executive Rank Award and the Distinguished Rank Award by President William J. Clinton in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Dr. Olden was awarded four of the most prestigious awards in public health: The Calver Award in 2002; the Sedwick Medal and Lautenberg Award in 2004, and the Julius B. Richmond Award in 2005. Finally, he was awarded the highly prestigious Princess Takamatsu Cancer Medal by the Japanese Royal Family in 2004. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68