AWARDS, HONORS, GRANTS

1955-60 Student Scholarship, the award from the School of Medicine (Warsaw) for excellence in academic work and engaging in research (stipend to cover tuition and living expenses)
1962-65 Doctoral Fellowship awarded by the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
1970-72 Scholarship Grant (PS-57) awarded by the American Cancer Society, Inc., NewYork, N.Y.
1972 Included in: "American Men and Women of Science", (Marquis Publ.)
1973-75 Research Grant from Charles A. King Trust, Boston, Mass.
1975-89 Research Grant from NCI (CA14134) "Automation of Urinary Cytology". Co-Investigator. (M.R. Melamed, Principal Investigator)
1978-87 Research Grant from NCI (RO1-CA 23 296) "Effects of New Antitumor Drugs on the Cell Cycle" (Principal Investigator); renewed in: 1981, 1984 and 1987 (Principal Investigator).
1978  "Gold Millenium of Poland Medal", awarded by the Polish-American Medical Society, USA, in recognition of research accomplishments. Award shared with Drs. Andrew Schally, Ludwik Gross, Hilary Koprowski and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
1980-pres. Research Grant from NCI (RO1-CA28704) "Probes for Flow Cytometry" (Principal Investigator); renewed in: 1983, 1987, 1990, 1995 and 1999.
1983, 1985 Included in: "Who is Who in America (East)", "Who is Who in Technology", "Who is Who in Cancer Research" (Marquis Publ.)
1985-86 Vice-President and Program Chairman, The Cell Kinetics Society
1986-87 President, The Cell Kinetics Society
1986-1999 Member, Advisory Board, The Alfred Jurzykowski Foundation, New York, N.Y.
1987-92 NASA consultant on flow cytometry in the Space Station
1987 MERIT Award Research Grant from NCI (R37-CA23296) "Effects of New Anticancer Drugs on the Cell Cycle" (Principal Investigator)
1990 Grant-Contract from NASA (through Krug Life Sciences) to develop the "Liquidless" staining of cells applicable to conditions of the Space Station (Principal Investigator)
1990-pres. Yearly Research Fund Awards provided by the "This Close" Foundation for Cancer Research, Inc., New Haven, CT.
1992-94 President of the International Society for Analytical Cytology (ISAC) and Program Chairman of the XVIIth ISAC Congress (Lake Placid, 1994)
1994 Honorary Editor, Cytometry Research (Japan)
1995 Honorary Member, Cytometry Society of Japan
1996 Member (Foreign), Polish Academy of Sciences (PAU), Cracow, Poland
1996 Honorary member of the Polish Cytometry Society
1997-98 Research Grant from Alfacell Corp., Bloomfield, N.J. providing funds to study antitumor activity of ONCONASE (Principal Investigator)
1997  Honorary member of the Iberian Cytometry Society
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Research Grant from Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Co., Indianapolis, IN providing funds to study mechanism of action of new antitumor drugs  (Principal Investigator
2000 Medal of Honor, Polish Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine