Jason Mateika Ph.D., professor of Physiology for the Wayne State University School of Medicine and research career scientist for the John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, has recently been recognized for a number of awards and national appointments.

Dr. Mateika's VA Research Career Scientist Award was renewed for five years. The award recognizes established, independent investigators who have distinguished themselves through scientific achievement, and contribution to training and mentoring of junior scientists, in addition to serving on local and national grant review committees.

He also was recently recognized as a Star Reviewer for the Journal of Applied Physiology. This program is designed by the American Physiological Society to recognize the top three reviewers of each APS journal who consistently go above and beyond the call of duty to provide an extraordinary number of reviews and/or who have provided particularly timely reviews.

Also, Dr. Mateika was nominated as a member of a National VA Medical/Surgical Clinical Science Research and Developmental Centralized Data Monitoring Committee. The nomination is in addition to his membership on the Department of Veterans Affairs Joint Biomedical Laboratory Research and Clinical Science Research and Development Scientific Merit Review Board.