The 2009 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Technological Integration of Medical Science and Engineering
• Achievement:
  Contribution to tomographic imaging in nuclear medicine
• Lecture:
  A Slice of Life; 50 Years of Emission Tomography

Major Honors and Awards

1976	Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Citation, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1981	Ernst Jung Prize for Medicine, Jung Foundation, Hamburg
1985	The Louise and Lionel Berman Foundation Award for Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
1989	Elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
1989	Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institutes of Health
1995	Georg Charles de Hevesy Nuclear Medicine Pioneer Award, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1996	Benedict Cassen Prize for Research Leading to a Major Advance in Nuclear Medicine Science, Society of Nuclear Medicine
1996	Outstanding Researcher Award, Radiological Society of North America
2001	Charles F. Kettering Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer, General Motors Cancer Research Foundation

Member

	American College of Nuclear Physicians
	American College of Radiology
	American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
	American Neurological Association
	Association of American Physicians
	Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science
	Radiological Society of North America
	Society of Nuclear Medicine

Academic Degrees

1951	B.A., in Physics, Temple University
1955	M.D., University of Pennsylvania

Professional Career

1955-1956	Internship (Rotating), Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1958-1962	Radiology Fellowship, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1958-1961	Assistant Instructor in Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1961-1963	Instructor in Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1963-1965	Associate in Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1965-1967	Assistant Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1967-1970	Associate Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1970-1976	Professor of Radiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
1974-1976	Professor of Bioengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
1963-1976	Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1975-1976	Vice Chairman, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
1976-1984	Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
1976-1984	Associate Director, Laboratory of Biomedical and Environmental Sciences and Chief, Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles
1976-1986	Professor of Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
1977-1986	Vice Chairman, Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine
1986-2000	Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School
1986-2002	Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Departments of Internal Medicine (1986-2000) and Radiology (2000-2002), Director, PET Center
1986-Present	Professor of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School

Title

• Professor, Radiology, University of Michigan Medical School

Major Publications

• Kuhl, DE, and Edwards, RQ: Image Separation Radioisotope Scanning. Radiology 80: 653-662, April 1963.
• Kuhl, DE, Hale, J, Eaton, WL: Transmission scanning: A useful adjunct to conventional emission scanning for accurately keying isotope deposition to radiographic anatomy. Radiology 87 (2):278-84. August 1966.
• Kuhl DE, Reivich M, Alavi A, Nyary I, Staum M. Local Cerebral Blood Volume Determined by Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Radionuclide Scan Data. Circ Res 1975; 36:610-9.
• Ido, T, Wan, CN, Casella, V, Fowler, JS, Wolf, AP, Reivich, M, and Kuhl, DE: Labeled 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Analogs. 18-F-Labeled 2-Deoxy-2- Fluoro-D-Glucose, 2-deoxy-2-2 fluoro-D-mannose and 14-C-2-deoxy-2- fluoro-D-glucose. J Labeled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals   14: 175-183, 1978.
• Reivich M, Kuhl DE, Wolf A, Greenberg J, Phelps ME, Ido T, Casella V, Fowler J, Hoffman E, Alavi A, Sokoloff L. The F-18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Method for the Measurement of Local Cerebral Glucose Utilization in Man. Circ Res 1979; 44:127-37.
• Phelps, ME, Huang, SC, Hoffman, EJ, Selin. C, Sokoloff, L, Kuhl, DE: Tomographic measurement of local cerebral glucose metabolic rate in humans with (F-18)2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose. Validation of method. Annals of Neurology  6 (5):371-88. November 1979.
• Kuhl DE, Engel J Jr, Phelps ME, Selin C. Epileptic Patterns of Local Cerebral Metabolism and Perfusion in Humans Determined By Emission Computed Tomography of 18FDG and 13NH3. Ann Neurol  1980; 8:348-60.
• Minoshima, S, Foster, NL, Kuhl, DE: Posterior cingulate cortex in Alzheimer's disease. Lancet. 24; 344 (8926):895. September 1994.