New York University College of Dentistry's Timothy Bromage, M.A., Ph.D., has been selected to receive the 2010 Max Planck Research Award. The award includes a stipend of $1.02 million.
Bromage, a professor of basic science and craniofacial biology and of biomaterials and biomimetics, will collaborate with Friedemann Schrenk of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, to research the microanatomical structure of bones and teeth and the links between metabolic states, growth rates, life spans, and biological features such as sex and body size.
Bromage was the first researcher to use biologically based principles of craniofacial development to reconstruct early hominid skulls.
In citing Bromage's qualifications for receiving the award, the selection committee noted that his research on the microanatomical structure of ancestral human teeth and bones has established the modern fields of human evolution growth, development, and life history -- the pace by which an organism grows. Moreover, noted the committee, his research has shown a relationship between bone and tooth microstructure and body size, metabolic rate, age, and other biological features.
This award, granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society, is funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It promotes German and foreign academics working in disciplines that have particular scope for future development.
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