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	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Carver Charitable Trust Endows CCOM DNA Facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine, Iowa, University of Iowa Health Care and the UI Foundation have announced a $2 million gift from the Carver Charitable Trust that will establish an operational endowment for the DNA Facility in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.
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		<title>UI Selected as Hub for Nationwide Birth Defects Research Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly half of all birth defects involve the face and skull, but the causes  of these problems remain largely unknown. To better understand &#8212; and ultimately  prevent &#8212; such defects, a new project involving the University of Iowa will  focus on creating a first-ever encyclopedic database on how the faces of healthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UI Researchers Receive American Cancer Society Seed Grants</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.

Songhai Chen, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology, is investigating how to target certain proteins in order to inhibit the development and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>De Camilli to Speak as Part of Distinguished Scholar Series and Brody Lecture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leading cellular neuroscientist will speak as part of the Carver College of Medicine&#8217;s Distinguished Biomedical Lecture Series.  Pietro, De Camilli, MD, Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology and Neurobiology at Yale University will present &#8220;Molecular Mechanisms of Endocystosis&#8221; on Thursday, November 19 at 4 p.m.  De Camilli&#8217;s talk is also the Department of Pharmacology&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flow Cytometry Facility Awarded New Instrument Funding, Receives Upgrades</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Carver College of Medicine Flow Cytometry Facility has been awarded almost $500,000 by the National Institutes of Health for the purchase of an additional high-speed cell sorter.
&#8220;The addition of the new sorter will increase our capacity to serve investigators, and along with upgrades made to other equipment, will maintain the facility&#8217;s state-of-the-art status moving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horswill to Receive American Society for Microbiology Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campbell, Welsh Renewed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators</title>
		<link>http://medcom.uiowa.edu/research/?p=1633</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UI Study Reveals Second Pathway to Feeling Your Heartbeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our &#8220;interoceptive awareness&#8221; of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.
The University of Iowa study was published online this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience by researchers in the department of neurology in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pappajohns&#8217; $26.4 Million Gift Will Name UI Biomedical Research Institute</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Iowa President Sally Mason announced today a $26.4 million gift commitment from longtime UI benefactors John and Mary Pappajohn of Des Moines &#8212; the largest single gift commitment ever for the UI from individual Iowa donors &#8212; and said it will provide the university&#8217;s new interdisciplinary Institute for Biomedical Discovery with &#8220;the catalyst [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UI Receives $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant</title>
		<link>http://medcom.uiowa.edu/research/?p=1643</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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