According to the MacArthur Foundation, the "no strings attached" awards are intended to recognize and support the creative efforts of those committed to discovering and advancing knowledge and to improving lives. A total of 611 MacArthur Fellows have been named since the program began in 1981, including three other Hopkins faculty members.
Jamison, a psychologist and best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind (1995), was recognized for her efforts to enhance mental health treatment, to improve patient support and advocacy, and to increase public awareness of psychiatric disorders. The author of numerous scientific articles, of an influential medical text on manic-depressive illness and of several books for a general audience, Jamison has helped to increase understanding of suicide and serious mood disorders.
"Jamison has combined the talents of a scientist with those of a writer who can explain the subject of mental illness to the afflicted," says Paul McHugh, M.D., the Henry Phipps Professor of Psychiatry at Hopkins. "Her concentration on manic-depressive disorder has demonstrated to patients that they can become free of the disorder and live a full life as she herself has done."
Seydoux's work is helping to illuminate some of the most complex processes in biology, according to the Foundation. Her research focuses on the molecular machinery of reproduction and biological development, or how a single cell becomes a fully formed adult animal. Her work on the molecular genetics
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25-Oct-2001