Awards & Winners

Joanna Fowler

Joanna S. Fowler is a senior chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, and the Director of Brookhaven’s Center for Translational Neuroimaging. Fowler studies the effect of disease, drugs and aging on the human brain, and especially radiotracers in brain chemistry. She has received many awards for her pioneering work, including the National Medal of Science.

Awards by Joanna Fowler

Check all the awards nominated and won by Joanna Fowler.

2009


NAS Award in Chemical Sciences
(For exceptional accomplishments in the synthesis of positron-emitting chemical probes, and for their implementation in biomedical imaging and studies of in vivo biochemistry, which have had a major impact on human health worldwide.)

2008


National Medal of Science for Chemistry
(For her pioneering work in chemistry involving the synthesis of medical imaging compounds and her innovative applications of these compounds to human neuroscience, which have significantly advanced our understanding of the human brain and brain diseases including drug addiction.)