The Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award and the Mary Swartz Rose Young Investigator Award, were presented to Johanna W. Lampe, Ph.D., and Yuan Yuan Li, M.D., Ph.D., respectively, at the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting held in conjunction with Experimental Biology 2014 in San Diego, CA.
 
The Mary Swartz Rose awards are jointly presented by ASN and the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), and are awarded to recognize outstanding research on the safety and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health.  
 
Dr. Lampe, research professor in the Department of Epidemiology, and core faculty, Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Washington, studies human nutrition with a focus on bioactive compounds, and has published more than 200 research articles in nutrition and cancer journals. She is also the associate division director for the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. 
 
Dr. Li, an assistant research professor for the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, focused her studies on nutritional epigenetics of cancer and aging, and has published a number of high-profile papers in scientific journals.