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Sigmund honored 2013 Regents Award for faculty excellence

Regents awards recognize contributions to public higher education Given by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa, the award honors faculty members for work representing a significant contribution to exc...

Live or die? Postdoc Shepherd researches factors affecting cell life and death

Andrew Shepherd sees basic scientific research as something special on the path toward scientific discovery.

Research team receives $10.6 million to study obesity and hypertension

Researchers at the University of Iowa and colleagues at Cornell University have received a five-year, $10.6 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Insti...

Undergraduate students receive Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates (ICRU) Awards

Ben Weidemann, undergraduate student in Dr. Justin Grobe's laboratory, received award for his project entitled "Glycemic Control by the Brain Renin-Angiotensin System: Role for Peripheral AT2 Receptor...

Weidemann receives another Undergraduate Award

Benjamin J. Weidemann, a University of Iowa junior working in the laboratory of Dr. Justin L. Grobe, has been awarded an Undergraduate Award/Scholarship from the Department of Chemistry. This award is...

Rachel Starks receives most outstanding poster award - Research Week 2013

Rachel Starks, a graduate student in Dr. Kamal Rahmouni's laboratory, received most outstanding entry for the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science award for her poster entitled "A Rare Dis...

Alumni News

Interesting news on a former graduate student.

Students and postdocs in department receive travel awards to attend EB 2013 Conference

Biswanath Maity, Ph.D. postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Rory Fisher's laboratory, received a Vere D. Wenger Travel Award for his project entitled "RGS6 Functions as a Novel Suppressor of Tumor Initiation an...

Molecular hub links obesity, heart disease to high blood pressure

Obesity, heart disease, and high blood pressure (hypertension) are all related, but understanding the molecular pathways that underlie cause and effect is complicated.

Weidemann receives Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellowship

Benjamin J. Weidemann, a University of Iowa junior working in the laboratory of Dr. Justin L. Grobe, has been awarded an "Undergraduate Research Excellence Fellowship" from the American Physiological ...

UI Health Science Research Week events April 16 and 17

Beginning April 16, 2013 the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) will host events to celebrate UI Health Sciences Research Week. Health Sciences Research Week is sponsored by the Carver College of Medic...

Strack receives $1.3 million grant to study neuroprotective proteins

A University of Iowa research team led by Stefan Strack, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology in the UI Carver College of Medicine, will use a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of...

Postdoc Andrew Shepherd researches factors affecting cell life and death

Postdoctoral fellow Andrew Shepherd was featured in the Spring 2013 issue of Graduate Education at Iowa. The article entitled “Live or Die” discusses the importance of the potassium channel Kv2.1 in t...

Assistant Professor Justin Grobe receives Carver Collaborative Grant

The CCOM Research Committee recently selected the Carver Collaborative Grant entitled “Preeclampsia: All in the head? Investigating the Molecular Role of Vasopressin in Preeclampsia” to be funded. Thi...

Jason Ulrich selected as the paper of the week by the Journal of Biological Chemistry

Research paper by Jason Ulrich coauthored by Man-Su Kim, Patrick Houlihan, Leonid Shutov, DP Mohapatra, Stefan Strack and Yuriy Usachev selected as the paper of the week by the Journal of Biological C...

Dr. Usachev receives Excellence in Medical Education Award

Dr. Yuriy Usachev was honored with an Excellence in Medical Education Award at the 2012 CCOM Medical Education Celebration Day.  The award is for his significant contributions to the teaching mission ...