Recent News
July 2008
UI team helps piece together genetic puzzle of schizophrenia
'Outsiders' receive grant to study asthma
UI and ISU establish shared DNA sequencing instrumentation
UI external support is a record $386.2 million for 2007-08
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 Graudation Luncheon; May 16, 2008 honoring our graduates:
Bryan Allen, M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
Dan Ferraro , M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
Dom Cirillo , M.D., Ph.D. 2008 Graduate
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
UI researchers awarded $1.2 million for nanotoxicity study
UI study finds biological link between pain and fatigue
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:
$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
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:
- Abboud elected president of the American Clinical and Climatological Association
- October 2007
- Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging Approved by Board of Regents
- Stone reappointed as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
- September 2007
- UI Awarded $33.8 Million for Clinical and Translational Research
