Colgate-Palmolive sponsors several awards, grants, and fellowships annually and presents them to individuals during the SOT Awards Ceremony at the SOT Annual Meeting.
Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods
The purpose of the Colgate-Palmolive Awards for Student Research Training in Alternative Methods is to enhance student research training using in vitro methods or alternative techniques to reduce, replace, or refine use of animals in toxicological research. The Awards Committee will present the awards to graduate students to defray travel, per diem, and training expenses.
The award is for expenses for training consistent with the goal of this award program. The training may include, but is not limited to, use of in vitro and ex vivo procedures, use of nonmammalian animal models, computer modeling, and structure-activity relationships. Graduate students may propose to develop expertise in relevant methodologies at (1) a laboratory away from their home institution; (2) a laboratory at their home institution that would not be available to them otherwise; or (3) approved workshops, symposia, or continuing education programs where hands-on training will be received. The training should help toxicology graduate students enhance their thesis or dissertation research. Two or more awards, up to $3,750 each, are available annually.
Pictured are 2011–2014 SOT Councilor Dori R. Germolec (far left) and Lauren Hutchinson of Colgate-Palmolive (far right) with Colgate-Palmolive Award and Fellowship recipients (left to right): Aaron Lulla, Jaime Moscovitz, Alexandra Munoz, and Melanie Adler.
The recipients of the 2013 Awards were:
- Aaron Lulla, the University of California in Los Angeles, California.
Project Title: The Dithiocarbamate Fungicide Ziram Results in Endogenous Synuclein Aggregation, Dopaminergic Cell Loss, and Reduced
Locomotor Behavior in a Zebrafish Model of Parkinson’s Disease.
Host Institution: University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
- Jamie Moscovitz, The State University of New Jersey in Piscataway, New Jersey.
Project Title: Utilization of Primary Hepatocytes to Investigate Mechanisms of Chemical Disposition and Toxicity during Pregnancy.
Host Institution: University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.
- Alexandra Munoz, New York University School of Medicine, Tuxedo, New York.
Project Title: Multivariate Analysis and Fuzzy Modeling to Detect Nickel and Arsenic-Induced Gene Signatures in Microarray Data.
Host Institution: University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
Award Recipients
2000 Jason Gross
2001 Jason Biggs, Victoria Richards
2002 Kartik Shankar, Chad M. Vezina, Ryan L. Williams
2003 Sachin Devi, Midhun Korrapati, Pallavi Limaye
2004 Jaya Chilakapati, Marc A. Nascarella
2005 Vishaka Bhave, Ankur Dnyanmote, Jonathan Maher
2006 Mary Hassani, Prajakta Palkar
2007 Renee Gardner, Prajakta Palkar, Rohit Singhal, Rene Vinas
2008 Kimberly A. Hays, Haitian Lu
2009 Jennifer Cole, Katie Beth Paul, Samuel Peterson
2010 Maxwell C. K. Leung, David T. Szabo, Natalia M. VanDuyn
2011 Vijay More
2012 Agnes Forgacs, Rene Vinas, Aaron Lulla
2013 Aaron Lulla, Jamie Moscovitz, Alexandra Munoz
Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology
The Colgate-Palmolive Company sponsors the Colgate-Palmolive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in In Vitro Toxicology through the Society of Toxicology to advance the development of alternatives to animal testing in toxicological research.
The award is given annually and includes stipend and research costs up to $44,000 for one year (including funding to attend the SOT Annual Meeting to present this research). The award is available to postdoctoral trainees employed by academic institutions, federal/national laboratories, or research institutes worldwide. Preference is given to applicants in their first year of postdoctoral study.
Pictured are 2011–2014 SOT Councilor Dori R. Germolec (left) and Lauren Hutchinson (right)
with Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Alternative Research recipient, Lei Li Kerr (center). Hao Zhu is not pictured.
The recipient of the 2013 Fellowship was:
- Melanie Adler, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Project Title: Development and Evaluation of a High-Throughput Platform for Kidney Toxicity Screening and
Mechanistic Understanding
Fellowship Recipients
1988 Ernest Bloom
1989 Gin Hsieh
1990 Dennis E. Chapman
1991 Anne Walsh
1992 Qin Chen
1993 Erika Cretton
1994 William Chan
1995 Bob Van de Water
1997 Alan Parrish
1999 Russell Thomas
2001 Kevin Kerzee, Christopher Reilly
2002 Kevin Kerzee
2003 Kimberly Miller
2004 Kimberly Miller
2005 Francis Tukov
2007 Aaron Rowland
2008 Aaron Rowland
2009 Ankur Dnyanmote
2010 Ankur Dnyanmote
2011 Cassandra Deering-Rice
2012 Melanie Adler
2013 Melanie Adler
Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Alternative Research
The Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Alternative Research identifies and supports efforts that promote, develop, refine, or validate scientifically acceptable animal alternative methods to facilitate the safety assessment of new chemicals and formulations. Scientists at any stage of career progression may submit a proposal.
High priority will be given to projects that use in vitro or nonanimal models, reproductive and developmental toxicology, neurotoxicology, systemic toxicology, sensitization, and acute toxicity. The maximum award is $40,000, made as a single lump payment. Awardees can re-apply for funding in subsequent years.
Recipients of a 2013 Colgate-Palmolive Grant for Alternative Research were:
- Lei Li Kerr, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Project Title: Development of Artificial Nose for the Study of Engineered Nanomaterial
Toxicity and Accumulation in Brain via Olfactory Pathway Exposure
- Hao Zhu, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.
Project Title: Profiling Chemicals Based on Public BioAssay Data for the Development of
Predictive Computational Acute Toxicity Model
Grant Recipients
2006 Rola Barhoumi, Abby Benninghoff, Jodie Flaws, Courtney Sulentic, Xiaouzhong Yu
2007 Rita L. Caruso, Daniel R. Cerven, Anne R. Greenlee, Glenn M. Walker
2008 Daniel R. Ceven, Duncan C. Ferguson, Shashi K. Ramiah
2009 Qin M. Chen, Timothy J. Shafer, Mehmet Uzumcu
2010 Patrick Allard, Duncan C. Ferguson, Mehmet Uzumcu
2011 Patrick Allard, Hao Zhu
2012 Mingzhu Fang, Jennifer Freeman
2013 Lei Li Kerr, Hao Zhu
For additional information, please visit the SOT Awards and Fellowships section of the SOT website where you will find applications and additional required documents for download, along with more in-depth description about each of the sponsored awards provided courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive. We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues.