Larry Thompson receives EMS award
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Larry Thompson (right) receives the Environmental Mutagen Society award from Andrew Wyrobek, EMS president.
Larry Thompson, a molecular biologist in the Biosciences and Biotechnology Division of Physical and Life Sciences, has received the 2008 EMS Award. The award is given to one individual annually by the Environmental Mutagen Society (EMS) in recognition of "outstanding research contributions in the area of environmental mutagenesis."
The award was presented at the EMS annual meeting in Puerto Rico.
Thompson was selected for the award from a pool of nominees, which included non-EMS members. His research during his more than 35 years at LLNL has focused on the biological processes by which DNA is repaired in vivo . Specifically cited by the EMS was his "application of mammalian somatic vell genetics to the study of mutagenesis and the cloning of DNA repair genes."
This is the second external award for Thompson this year. He also received the Barbara Bowman Distinguished Texas Geneticist Award from the Texas Genetics Society.
