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President Bush Presents 2006 PECASE Award to UC Physiologist Jay Hove
11/02/2007
UC physiologist Jay Hove, PhD has been named a winner of the prestigious 2006 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
 PECASE is recognized as the highest award offered to young scientists by the United States government. Hove, associate professor of molecular and cellular physiology, received the award during a morning reception at the White House November 1, 2007. He is the first scientist from UC to receive the honor.
"Jay is a great example of the caliber of young faculty UC has been able to recruit," said Jane Henney, MD, senior vice president and provost for health affairs at UCÕs Academic Health Center. "His expertise has resulted in numerous research partnerships within UC and with other institutions."
The PECASE program was initiated by President Clinton in 1996 to honor the "extraordinary achievements of young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers in the fields of science and technology."
PECASE candidates must be nominated by one of nine participating U.S. agencies. Hove's nomination came from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) "in recognition for research in bringing global quantitative flow visualization to vertebrate embryos." Because the NIH recommends only first-time winners of its R01 research grant program for PECASE awards, scientists have just one shot at an NIH nomination.
Hove is the only scientist from Ohio ever to win the PECASE award from a nomination submitted by the NIH. Nine other Ohio-based researchers have won PECASE awards since the programÕs inception in 1996.
"Jay joins the growing list of distinguished research faculty here at the University of Cincinnati," said UC President Nancy Zimpher. "We're extremely proud of his accomplishments and we're thrilled to add a PECASE award to the line-up of honors received by one of our own."
"JayÕs work blurs the boundaries between engineering and physiology, and is deserving of this wonderful award," said Chip Montrose, PhD, professor and chair of molecular and cellular physiology. "It is great to see so much excitement about outcomes from multidisciplinary approaches as the emerging field of systems biology grows."
Hove began his scientific career at Caltech in California, studying the movement of water around swimming fish. UC recruited him in 2004 to head up the zebrafish facility at UC's Genome Research Institute, where he switched his focus to studying the flow of fluid and cells within organs and organ systems with the aid of these freshwater tropicals.
In 2006, Hove was awarded a four-year, $1.53 million R01 grant from the National Center for Research Resources of the NIH to create a laser-illuminated "4-D camera." He hopes the camera will provide scientists with a better way to study cell and fluid movement in three dimensions plus the fourth dimensionÑreal time.
He's working with colleagues at Caltech and the University of Washington to take Caltech's prototype 4-D camera technology and redesign it to fit on the end of a microscope. Hove says he hopes to have the technology ready by the end of grant period and suspects that it will be useful to researchers studying flow not only in zebrafish models but also in cultured cells and in other animal models where tissues and blood vessels are transparent enough to view.
"It was extremely humbling just to be nominated for this kind of recognition, let alone to actually be named a winner," said Hove. "IÕm really very grateful to the NIH and its National Center for Research Resources for their support of my work, and to the people in my lab and the great colleagues and mentors I've been lucky enough to work with over the years. I'm especially delighted to have the honor of representing the University of Cincinnati on such a grand stage and am thankful for the tremendous support UC has given me as I have developed my research program."
Hove was educated at the University of WisconsinÐMadison (BS, 1988) and the University of MassachusettsÐDartmouth (MS, 1993). He earned his PhD in biology at UCLA in 1999.
The nine participating agencies submitting PECASE nominations are the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services: NIH, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. A total of 58 scientists were honored with 2006 PECASE awards. For a full listing of winners, visit www.ostp.gov.
President George Bush stands amidst recipients of the 2006 Presidential Early Career
Awards for Scientists and Engineers during a photo opportunity November 1, 2007, on
the north portico of the White House. Established in 1996, PECASE represents the
highest honor that any young scientist or engineer can receive from the United States.
[White House photo by Chris Greenberg]
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