Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich. resident Kenneth Honn, Ph.D., is this year's recipient of The Lawrence M. Weiner Award honoring the outstanding contributions made by non-M.D. alumni of Wayne State University's School of Medicine. The award is based on exceptional performance in teaching, research and/or administrative duties.

Honn was honored during the "Connect the Docs" Medical Alumni Reunion, sponsored by the Wayne State University School of Medicine Alumni Association.

Honn is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Pathology and an adjunct professor in WSU's Department of Chemistry. He is director of the Bioactive Lipids Research Program and serves as a member of the Cancer Biology Graduate Program and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. He is the founding member and president of the Eicosanoid Research Foundation and chairman of the International Conference on Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation and Related Diseases, a bi-annual international conference he initiated in 1989.

Honn received his doctoral degree in endocrinology from Wayne State University in 1977. Following graduate training, he was hired as an assistant professor of radiology. Four years later, he was promoted to associate professor of radiology and radiation oncology and was promoted to professor and awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 2004.

He is the author of more than 300 published works, and received a citation from the Wayne State University Board of Governors as the most cited scholar at WSU. Honn has had continuous external funding, with more than 50 grants totaling in excess of $25 million.

Wayne State University is a premier urban research institution offering more than 370 academic programs through 13 schools and colleges to nearly 28,000 students.