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July 2008

UI helps identify gene mutation related to atrial fibrillation

Leducq Foundation international grant aids UI heart research

Sigmund named to Carver Chair in Hypertension Research

June 2008

UI faculty, staff and students share stories about the flooding of Iowa City

Flooding prompts University to cancel classes and nonessential functions

UI Study identifies brain pathway that shuts down seizures

May 2008

Rothman named new dean of UI Carver College of Medicine

National Kidney Foundation of Iowa gives $775,000 for UI research

Iowa leads nation in children's health care

UI researchers report results of prostate cancer vaccine study

MSTP Alumni Colin West, M.D., Ph.D., is awarded the 2008 College of Public Health Outstanding Alumni Award

MSTP Graudation Luncheon; May 16, 2008 honoring our graduates:
Bryan Allen
Bryan Allen, M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
Dan Ferraro
Dan Ferraro , M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
Dom Cirillo
Dom Cirillo , M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
Tim Moss

Tim Moss , M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate

MSTP Student Jen Delfs, M2G is spotlighted in the Carver College of Medicine Profiles

UI part of multicenter islet transplantation study

UI Discovery has implications for heart disease

April 2008

Turning on cell-cell communication wipes out Staph biofilms

UI contributes to gene therapy breakthrough for blinding eye disease

UI Children's Hospital receives $100,000 safety grant

MSTP Students Jacob Elkins, M3G, Adam Case, M4G and Matt Dickson, M5G win awards at the 1st annual CCOM All-Communites Leadership Excellence Banquet Held on April 16, 2008.

Pictured Above From Left to Right:
Matt Dickson, M5G won the Outstanding Student Leader, Adam Case, M4G won Community Service Award and Jake Elkins, M3G (not pictured) won the M2/PA Tutor Award

Other awards given were the M1Tutor Award and the Outstanding Student Organization

Helms wins Fulbright award to study vaccine policy in Australia

MSTP Student Adam Case, M4G is UI's Patch Adams connection: he helped to bring Patch Adams to the University on April 10

UI researchers awarded $1.2 million for nanotoxicity study

UI study finds biological link between pain and fatigue

MSTP Students Matt Dickson, M5G, Sarah Fineberg, M5G and Matt Thoendel, M4G receive awards for their posters at the 2008 College of Medicine Research Week

March 2008

$2.1 million NIH grant advances UI child health research

UI Hospitals and Clinics to open new Emergency Treatment Center

UI Medical Students Receive Residency Assignments on 'Match Day'

MSTP 2008 Graduates Match Results

$2.1 million NIH grant advances UI child health research

Protein target for diabetes drug regulates blood pressure

UI researchers receive grant to develop enhanced prostate cancer vaccine

February 2008

New, 'green' Hygienic Laboratory construction to begin in March

Immune deficiency and balance disorder result from single gene defect

First Annual UI MSTP I "Heart" Science Poster session:






UI finding from MSTP Graduate team member John Fingert, M.D., Ph.D. (2000) identifies a role for glaucoma gene and related signaling pathway

$1 million Carver Trust grant will help buy high-resolution microscope

Functional immune cells derived from embryonic stem cells

Gift enables UI to take clubfoot-eradiation program to 10 countries

UI, ISU team aims for new therapies for post-traumatic osteoarthritis

January 2008

Holden Cancer Center receives Lance Armstrong Foundation grant

UI Study Examines decision-making deficits in older adults

Doorn studies link between pesticides, Parkinson's disease

$150,000 from Peregrine Charities to benefit UI pediatrics

December 2007

UI finding by MSTP Graduate Robert Philbert, M.D., Ph.D. (1989), may eventually help tailor treatment for depression.

MSTP Student Nick Ettinger, M5G selected to participate in the Second Annual Investing in the Future: Attracting MD/PhD Students into Gastroenterology program January 25-26, 2008.

November 2007

American Cancer Society begins fourth decade of funding UI Cancer Research

MSTP Student Dom Cirillo, M6G is spotlighted in the Carver College of Medicine Profiles

MSTP Student Amy Jongeling, M5G is spotlighted in the Carver College of Medicine Profiles

MSTP Student Sara Alford, M4G is spotlighted in the Carver College of Medicine Profiles

Abboud and Heistad honored by the American Heart Association

MSTP Students Carmen Halabi, M5G and Emily Schindler, M4G were recognized during the annual Genetics retreat on November 2, 2007: