Richard Schultz to Receive 2009 Research Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction
April 2009
Richard Schultz, the Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of Biology and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences, will receive the 2009 Research Award from the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) at the organization’s annual meeting in July. The award recognizes an active SSR member for outstanding research published during the previous six years.
A developmental biologist whose work focuses on mammalian reproduction, Dr. Schultz is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served on the National Science Foundation’s panel for Developmental Biology, as well as the Reproductive Biology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His scholarship has been honored by an NIH MERIT Award, the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Society for Reproduction and Fertility, and the Jan Purkinje Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Schultz joined the Penn faculty in 1978, serving as chair of the Department of Biology from 2004 through 2008, when he assumed his current role as Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences. He is also a former chair of the Biology Graduate Group and a current member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Graduate Group based in the School of Medicine.