News Archive

• Airway Cells Use 'Tasting' Mechanism to Detect and Clear Harmful Substances
• Sticky Protein Helps Reinforce Fragile Muscle Membranes
• UI Nets $3.6 Million Grant for Glaucoma Research
• UI-led Team Develops DNA Compounds that Could Help Treat Lupus
• UI-led NIH Study Shows Drug Aids Hemodialysis Treatment
• Kwitek Honored for Hypertension Research
• Campbell Receives March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology
• UI Study Suggests a New Target for Treatment of Depression
• Gene Discovery Could Lead to Male Contraceptive
• Spitz Receives Grant to Study Potential New Cancer Treatment
• New Insights on Heart's 'Fight or Flight' Response to Stress
• Endowed UI Professorship Named for Keech; Drack Named to Position
• Welsh Named Founding Director of UI Institute for Biomedical Discovery
• New Surgical Implant Tested at UI Prevents Total Blindness
• UI Researcher Helps Catch 'Calcium Flicker' Action
• Effects of Smoking Linked to Accelerated Aging Protein
• Magnotta and Wemmie Win Major Neuroscience Award
• Three CCOM Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows
• Rare Disease Provides Clues About Enzyme Role in Arrhythmias
• Cellular Stress Causes Fatty Liver Disease in Mice
• VIDA Diagnostics Gains FDA Approval for Comprehensive Lung Analysis Software
• UI Leads Discovery of Gene Associated with Epilepsy
• Winokur Appointed Associate Dean at UI Carver College of Medicine
• Lung Airway Cells Activate Vitamin D and Increase Immune Response
• UI Study May Explain Exercise-induced Fatigue in Muscular Dystrophies
• $2.3 million McCord Research Gift Supports UI Biomedical Research
• Predatory Bacterial Swarm Uses Rippling Motion to Reach Prey
• UI Study Finds Value in 'junk' DNA
• Age-related Macular Degeneration: New Gene Association Identified
• Study Provides Insights on a Common Heart Rhythm Disorder
• UI Study Finds Genetic Variant Plays Role in Cleft Lip
• NIH Selects UI, Polk County for National Children's Study
• Researchers Develop New Model for Cystic Fibrosis
• UI Department of Urology Receives $4.8 Million NIH Grant
• UI Research Takes on Post-smoking Health Issues
• Embryonic Stem Cells Might Help Reduce Transplantation Rejection
• UI Team Develops Imaging Approach for Difficult Cancers
• Fraternal Order of Eagles Pledges to Raise $25 million for UI Diabetes Research
• Researchers Help Show Continuous Glucose Monitoring Improves Blood Sugar Control
• Davidson Awarded New NIH Grant for 'High-risk, High-reward' Research
• Sugg Named Holden Associate Professor of Breast Cancer Surgery
• Fruit Flies Help UI Team Understand Bacterial Infections
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Contributes to Help UI Flood Recovery
• UI Team Helps Piece Together Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
• 'Outsiders' Receive Grant to Study Asthma
• UI and ISU Establish Shared DNA Sequencing Instrumentation
• Segal Receives Grant for Aging-related Research
• Leducq Foundation International Grant Aids UI Heart Research
• UI Helps Identify Gene Mutation Related to Atrial Fibrillation
• Sigmund Named to Carver Chair in Hypertension Research
• UI Team Helps Discover How Measles Virus Spreads within a Body
• Study Identifies Brain Pathway that Shuts Down Seizures
• National Kidney Foundation Gives $775,000 for UI Research
• UI Researchers Report Results of Prostate Cancer Vaccine Study
• Discovery has Implications for Heart Disease
• Turning on Cell-cell Communication Wipes out Staph Biofilms
• Sheffield Renewed as Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
• UI Contributes to Gene Therapy Breakthrough for Blinding Eye Disease
• Helms Wins Fulbright Award to Study Vaccine Policy in Australia
• Study Finds Biological Link Between Pain and Fatigue
• Advances Made in Fructose Intolerance Recognition and Research
• $2.1 million NIH Grant Advances UI Child Health Research
• Protein Target for Diabetes Drug Regulates Blood Pressure
• Rare Syndrome Provides Clues on Obesity, Blood Pressure
• UI Researchers Receive Grant to Develop Enhanced Prostate Cancer Vaccine
• $1 million Carver Trust Grant Will Help buy High-resolution Microscope
• Functional immune cells derived from embryonic stem cells
• Unexpected Protein Interaction Suggests New ALS Drug Target
• Medical Error Reporting by Doctors to Hospitals Seems Underused
• Holden Cancer Center Receives Lance Armstrong Foundation Grant
• UI Study Examines Decision-making Deficits in Older Adults
• Griffith Appointed to Andersen-Hebbeln Professorship
• Gift to Benefit UI Pediatric Research
• Constipation Most Common Cause of Children's Abdominal Pain
• American Cancer Society Begins Fourth Decade of Funding UI Cancer Research
• Abboud, Heistad Honored by American Heart Association
• UI Study Finds 'Runner's High' May Also Strengthen Hearts
• UI Receives $23.7 Million Contract to Conduct Vaccine Research
• UI Finding May Eventually Help Tailor Treatment for Depression
• Three UI Researchers Receive Grants to Study Breast Cancer
• Regents Approve Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging
• UI Study Shows that Parkinson's Disease Impairs Normal Driving Skills
• Stinski Elected 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
• UI Receives $7.5 Million to Study Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
• UI Children's Hospital Physician to Receive Research Honor
• UI Signs Third $1.5 Million Alcon Contract for Study of Blinding Eye Diseases
• UI Licensee Optherion Secures $37 Million in Startup Financing
• UI Physician Named President-elect of International Research Group
• UI Awarded $33.8 Million for Clinical and Translational Research
• Linchpin Gene may be Useful Target for New Breast Cancer Therapies
• UI Team Identifies Genes that Improve Survival in Mice with ALS
• UI Pain Management Expert Conducts Research in Northern Ireland
• Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Awards Seed Grant Funds
• Weiner to Lead National Cancer Center Review Group
• UI Biochemistry Professor Receives International Award
• Altering a Protein Makes Mice Less Fearful
• Team Led by Rao Receives NIH Grant to Study Constipation Therapies
• National Cancer Institute Renews $11.9 Million Lymphoma Research Grant
• UI External Support is a Record $382.2 Million for 2006-07
• Butler Receives Veterinary Immunology Awards
• UI Scientists Receive Young Investigator Awards
• UI Study Shows Faulty Membrane Repair Causes Heart Disease
• Andreasen Receives Distinguished Investigator Award
• Sigmund to Receive Corcoran Award from American Heart Association
• UI Biomedical Researcher Named a 2007 Pew Scholar
• UI Receives $10 Million to Study Brain Systems Regulating Blood Pressure
• Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Announces Research Seed Grants
• Combining NSAIDs with Chemotherapy, Radiation May Improve Cancer Treatment
• UI Medical Student is Named Fogarty Scholar, Will Conduct Research in Zambia
• UI's Andreasen Leads Report on VA Post-Traumatic Stress Cases
• Researchers Learn More About Genetic Mutation Linked to Autism
• Ponseti Receives National Children's Miracle Network Award
• Researchers See Trends in Synthetic Stimulant Mice
• Biofeedback Treats One Type of Chronic Constipation
• Study Links Emotions and Moral Judgement
• UI Team Identifies Protein that may Promote Migraines
• Additional Genetic Mutations Found that may Cause Cleft Lip/Palate
• UI Study: Antidepressants Improve Post-Stroke 'Thinking Outside Box'
• UI Researchers, Projects Named Finalists for Technology Leadership Awards
• Autism Researchers Report Key Genetic Finding
• UI Researchers Begin 'Project 3000': A Recipe for Hope through Genetic Research
• Buckwalter Receives Prestigious Orthopaedics Award
• UI Study Reveals Value of Schizophrenia-Related Gene Variation
• UI and USC Scientists Identify Brain Region that Maintains Addiction
• Genetic Inability to Detoxify Cigarette Smoke Increases Cleft Lip Risk