Professor Henry Forman Honored for Distinguished Service

Professor Henry Forman has earned the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine. Forman has served for two years as the group’s president and reviews editor, and two years before that as president-elect.

This has been a busy and exciting year for Forman, who took a sabbatical and was invited to lecture internationally, including at the Society for Free Radical Research International in Kyoto; the Department of Molecular Medicine Scientific Meeting at the University of Padua, Italy; the Society for Free Radical Research – Europe 2014, in Paris; and in Liverpool, Birmingham and the University of Exeter in the UK.

He has active grants being funded through 2019, including one with co-investigator Peggy O’Day of UC Merced, looking at “Human Models of the Particulate-Induced Inflammatory/Antioxidant Axis in Aging"; one with co-investigator Kelvin Davies of USC, examining “Oxygen Radical Toxicity and Protein Degradation"; and a third with Thomas Coates of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.

Besides the award from the Society for Free Radical Biology & Medicine, Forman has been recognized this year as a visiting professor at the University of Padua; a visiting international scholar at the University of Exeter; and won Recognition of Achievements from the University of Ferrara, Italy.

He has also published nine papers, including one in the journal Nature.