The Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry recognizes and encourages research in nuclear and radiochemistry or their applications. Nominees must have made outstanding contributions to nuclear or radiochemistry or to their applications. The award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background.
Seaborg Award Recipients
Henry VanBrocklin
Expertise: Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry
Specialty: Short-lived radioisotope production to the creation of fluorine-18 and carbon-11 labeling chemistry strategies for new radiotracer preparations and applications, development of positron-labeled estrogens, progestin’s, androgens for tumor imaging
Professional Interests: Developing radiopharmaceutical probes for PET and SPECT imaging applications including tracers for blood flow measurement, receptor-targeted tracers for prostate, pancreatic and breast cancer, and neurological imaging agents for neuroinflammation and excititory amino acid transport.
Education and Training: PhD at Washington University, St. Louis – Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry; Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Illinois, Urbana