Ed will be honored by the ASCI, the premier scientific association for physician-scientists, with a $500 award at its annual meeting on April 25! I had nominated him for the 2015 Young Physician-Scientist Award based on his novel discoveries as a recently independent investigator that the autophagy protein beclin1 has additional roles sorting surface amyloid precursor protein for plasma membrane autophagy and endolysosomal degradation. Such work has implications both for our basic understanding of alternative pathways for plasma membrane degradation, and for Alzheimer's disease mechanisms Congratulations, Ed!