News Archive

January 2012

Function Revealed for Enzyme Involved in Muscular Dystrophy 

 Researchers at the University of Iowa have worked out the exact function of an enzyme that is critical for normal muscle structure and is involved in several muscular dystrophies. The findings, which...

Research shows progress toward a genital herpes vaccine

An investigational vaccine protected some women against infection from one of the two types of herpes simplex viruses that cause genital herpes, according to findings published Jan. 5 in the New Engla...

Suarez to deliver UI Health Care Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Lecture

Mr. Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for PBS's The NewsHour and best-selling author, will deliver the 2012 UI Health Care Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Lecture, titled "Life in the Next Ame...

Wilson named Associate Dean for Graduate Education

Dr. Mark C. Wilson was recently named the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education. This is a new positition within the Carver College of Medicine and reflects the commitment to best position Gra...

 Writing and medicine conference gathers poet laureate, physician writers, and educators

Poet Laureate Levine, Columbia author Hermann, and physician/poet Watts are set to headline this year's The Examined Life Conference.