1979 Outstanding Scientific Achievements by a Young Investigator
Eric J. Sampson will receive the 1979 the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (formerly AACC) Young Investigator Award for a manuscript entitled “Chemical Inhibition Used in Developing a Kinetic Method for Measuring Urea in Serum.” He is the fourth recipient of this award, sponsored by the Hycel Corporation.
Dr. Sampson, a native of Mechanicsburg, PA, received his B.S. degree in chemistry from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1967 and his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, in 1972.
From 1971 to 1974 he was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served as an instructor in chemistry at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD. In 1974, he was awarded a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Chemistry and accepted a position in the Department of Clinical Pathology at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA. Since 1976 he has been at the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, where he is head of the Advanced Technology Laboratory in the Clinical Chemistry Division, Bureau of Laboratories.
Dr. Sampson joined the the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) in 1974. He has published 18 scientific papers, and his current research is in the area of developing standard methods and materials for clinical enzymology and steroid hormones. He is a member of the Creatine Kinase and Amylase Study Groups of the Subcommittee on Enzymes, the Urea Study Group of the Subcommittee on Nitrogenous Compounds, and the Cortisol Study Group of the Radioligand Subcommittee of the ADLM Committee on Standards.
He is certified by the National Registry in Clinical Chemistry and is a member of the International Society for Clinical Enzymology.