The winner of the 2008 Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award is Terry McDermott, a Los Angeles Times staff writer.
McDermott's winning entry, a four-part investigative study of research on memory, is titled "Chasing Memory: One Man's Epic Quest for Understanding." For his work, he will receive a cash prize of $5,000.
For the first time, the judges also awarded an honorable mention -- to Chip Rowe, senior editor at Playboy magazine, for his articles on male sexuality.
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