The General Motors Cancer Research Foundation has awarded the Charles F. Kettering Prize to Dr. Michael Phelps, one of the creators of the PET scanner. Phelps shares the $250,000 award with PET co-inventor Dr. David Kuhl from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Phelps also has garnered an Energy@23 award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for PETfs role in the detection of breast cancer.
Phelps is the chair of molecular and medical pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also heads up the molecular medicine division of the UCLA-DOE Laboratory of Structural Biology and Molecular Medicine. He is the chief of the division of nuclear medicine, the director of the Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, and a professor of biomathematics.
Phelps, Kuhl, and others developed the first of several model PET scanners in 1976. He was also instrumental in gaining FDA approval for imaging cancer with PET.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersJune 21, 2001
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