For Release: June 1, 2006

Dr. Britton Chance Awarded 2006 ARRS Gold Medal

Britton Chance, PhD, MD, ScD, and Eldridge Reeves Johnson University Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, and Radiologic Physics at the University of Pennsylvania, is one of three winners of the American Roentgen Ray Society’s (ARRS) highest award, the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Radiology. Dr. Chance received the award at a ceremony held during the ARRS 106th annual meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Dr. Chance received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and his ScD from Cambridge University.

He has a multitude of scientific and engineering accomplishments to his name, ranging from the development of the stopped-flow method for observing rapid biological reactions to pioneering research into cell bioenergetics, including the formation of enzyme-substrate compounds. Dr. Chance and colleagues obtained the first nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra from excised and in situ heart, brain, and liver in 1977-1978, and the first NMR spectra from an exercised human limb in 1980.

His lifetime contributions to the field of NMR were recognized in 2005 when Dr. Chance delivered the Lauterbur-endowed lecture at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

This lecture was one of the more than 50 awards and honors he has received, including the National Medal of Science, the College of Physicians Gold Medal for Distinguished Service to Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health Christopher Columbus Discovery Award in Biomedical Research.

Dr. Chance is the father of the field of optical imaging. His current research interests include: cancer detection, cognitive imaging, skeletal muscle function, cardiomyopathy and cancer heterogeneity, all investigated using optical spectroscopy and imaging.

The American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) is a highly respected peer-reviewed monthly radiology journal published by the American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS). For almost 100 years, the AJR has been recognized as one of the best specialty journals in the world. The ARRS and AJR are named after Wilhelm Röentgen, who discovered the x-ray in 1895. For more information, visit www.arrs.org.

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