Three University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine researchers have each received a one-year, $30,000 American Cancer Society seed grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UI. The awards were effective Nov. 1. Click to continue »
Alexander Horswill, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology has been selected by the American Society for Microbiology to receive a Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award. The award is one of only two such awards to be conferred by the society in 2010.
The Merck Irving S. Sigal Memorial Award recognizes excellence in basic research in medical microbiology and infectious diseases. The award is given annually to newer investigators no more than five years beyond completion of their postdoctoral training. Horswill completed his postdoctoral training at Penn State University and joined the faculty of the UI in 2005.
Horswill will be presented with the award at the general meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in May 2010.
Two researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have been renewed for another five years as investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Both researchers, Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., and Michael Welsh, M.D., have been HHMI investigators since 1989.
Based in Maryland, the institute was founded in 1953 by aviator-industrialist Howard Hughes to promote the basic sciences and the effective application of findings to benefit humankind. Click to continue »
The University of Iowa has received a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will support an innovative global health research project conducted by Craig Morita, M.D., Ph.D., faculty member in the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, to create a vaccine against microbes that cause diarrhea.
Morita’s project is one of 76 grants announced Tuesday by the Gates Foundation in the third funding round of the Grand Challenges Explorations. This five-year, $100-million-dollar initiative aims to help scientists worldwide explore innovative, new ways to improve health in developing countries. Grants in this round were awarded to scientists in 16 countries on five continents. The initiative is highly competitive, receiving almost 3,000 proposals for this round. Click to continue »
The University of Iowa Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been awarded a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support junior faculty researchers in women’s reproductive health.
The grant, effective Sept. 30, establishes the Iowa Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center, one of 16 such programs nationwide. Funding is provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the Office of Research on Women’s Health, both part of the NIH.
“This will enhance the reputation and visibility of the University of Iowa as a leader in women’s health research,” said the grant’s program director, Mario Ascoli, Ph.D., UI professor of pharmacology and an expert in reproductive biology. Click to continue »
Six Carver College of Medicine Investigators have been awarded grants as part of new “challenge” and “GO” programs offered by the National Institutes of Health. Together, the seven grants represent over $7 million in new funding.
Investigators receiving challenge grants include: Click to continue »
Francois Abboud, M.D., University of Iowa faculty member, has been appointed to the Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space: Animal and Human Biology Panel, which operates through the National Academies.
The Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board organized the group to establish priorities and provide recommendations for life and physical sciences research in microgravity and partial gravity for the next decade and beyond. The congressionally mandated study may play a role in developing key exploration capabilities and revitalizing NASA research in biological and physical sciences. Click to continue »
Researchers in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program in the University of Iowa Department of Radiation Oncology have received more than $3.7 million in federal funding through five different grants to conduct cancer biology research.
The largest grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy and NASA to Douglas Spitz, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology and director of the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program. Spitz will use the three-year, nearly $1.4 million grant to study molecular mechanisms that mediate responses to low dose radiation exposure in cells and animals. These studies could improve understanding of health risks from low dose radiation to both patients and workers. Click to continue »
Gary Rosenthal, M.D., professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine and physician with UI Hospitals and Clinics, has been appointed president-elect of the Society of General Internal Medicine, an organization that is at the forefront of efforts to promote national health care reform.
The appointment was effective May 1. Rosenthal, who also directs the UI Division of General Internal Medicine, will then serve as the society’s president from May 2010 to May 2011. Click to continue »
Anne Kwitek, Ph.D., faculty member in the UI Carver College of Medicine, has received a Young Scholars Award from the American Society of Hypertension.
Kwitek, associate professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics, was one of three recipients of the annual award. She received the honor and a $6,000 award May 9 at the society’s annual meeting held in San Francisco. Click to continue »
