Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC - January 8, 2002 - Carl Peck, MD, Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, will be presented with an Honorary Doctorate degree (Doctor Honoris Causa) at a ceremony in Uppsala, Sweden, on January 25. Uppsala University's Faculty of Pharmacy nominated Dr. Peck "for outstanding contributions to the science of drug development".
Cited contributions include leadership of advances in drug regulatory science made during Dr. Peck's tenure as Director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (1987-1993) and his founding of Georgetown University's Center for Drug Development Science (CDDS), where he has researched and taught since 1994. Important scientific methodologies championed by CDDS include the modeling and simulation of clinical trials, and a theory of scientific drug development that optimizes causal and empirical information to enable efficient transition of promising agents to useful therapeutic drugs.
Dr. Peck is familiar with European academia, having studied at German universities in Tübingen and Stuttgart, Germany (1963-64) and taught at the Leiden University (Netherlands) as the "Boerhaave Professor" during 1993-94.
Founded in 1477, Uppsala University is the oldest university in the Nordic countries. Among many distinguished faculty, Carolus Linnžus (1707-1778) is the most renowned, having brought great prestige to Sweden and Uppsala University through his seminal book (Systema Naturž) and subsequent researches using his revolutionary method of categorizing the plants based on their reproductive systems.
European universities practice centuries-old traditions, especially in the conferring of degrees, which in the case of Uppsala University take place in the university's Grand Auditorium of University Hall. Those who have completed their doctorate degrees are honored with either a wreath of laurels or a doctor's hat and their diploma. Honorary doctorates are conferred to distinguished recipients from Sweden and abroad.
At the conferment ceremony, Dr. Peck will receive a traditional top hat and a special ring bearing Uppsala University symbols, and will wear his Kansas University academic gown and medical doctorate hood. Later, the gown will be replaced by formal "tails" (white) for wear at the celebration dinner at Uppsala Castle. Dr. Peck will be accompanied at the ceremony and celebration dinner by Barbara Peck, and their daughter, Julia Peck, a Georgetown University linguistics student.
Additional information may be obtained from Beth Porter at (202) 687-4699.
The mission of Georgetown's Center For Drug Development Science is to establish clinical drug development science as a rigorous academic discipline for advancing new scientific methodologies, to contribute to the education of scientists engaged in clinical evaluation of drugs, and to provide solutions to real-world drug development problems. For more information, visit http://cdds.georgetown.edu
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