Research vice chair Lenkinski receives postdoctoral mentor award
Dr. Robert Lenkinski recently received the 2017 UT Southwestern Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring, which recognizes “scientific prowess” and a willingness to “facilitate, nurture and transfer” to trainees the “necessary behaviors for personal and professional growth.”
Dr. Lenkinski, Vice Chair of Radiology Research and Professor of Radiology and in the Advanced Imaging Research Center was recognized by the UT Southwestern Postdoctoral Association Executive Board for “setting the stage for potentialing the career” of mentees. He received the award at a National Postdoctoral Appreciation Week luncheon on Sept. 20, during which he offered reflections on more than three decades of mentoring.
“I consider this a great honor,” Dr. Lenkinski said. “The mentoring relationship is critical to an individual’s academic and scientific success.”
Dr. Lenkinski earned his doctorate in chemistry from the University of Houston, and then received advanced training at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel through a postdoctoral fellowship program in isotope research. A major focus of his research involves developing, validating and applying magnetic resonance spectroscopic (MRS) and multinuclear imaging methods for the study of human disease.
Dr. Lenkinski holds the Charles A. and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Chair in Translational Research; and the Jan and Bob Pickens Distinguished Professorship in Medical Science, in Memory of Jerry Knight Rymer and Annette Brannon Rymer and Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Pickens.