Richard Marchase, vice president for research and economic development and professor of cell biology, has received the 2010 A.J. Ladman/ Wiley Exemplary Service Award from the American Association of Anatomists (AAA) - one of the top awards it presents given annually.

Marchase has been a generous and effective contributor to the public affairs activities of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) for more than a decade.

As president of FASEB, Marchase's most lasting impact was on funding for biomedical research. He was a tireless advocate for National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) funding and early vocal supporter of funding for NIH on supplemental and stimulus appropriations bills.

Initiating the discussion on the post-stimulus budget, Marchase began the campaign for predictable, sustainable growth and met with officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget to discuss the long-term prospects for the U.S. science enterprise. At his invitation, the presidents of the chemical, physics and mathematics societies joined him in congressional testimony on behalf of the NSF in April 2009.