News Archive

Faculty Focus: Annette Schlueter, MD, PhD

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Dr. Annette Schlueter is featured this month on The College of Medicine Faculty Focus...

Dr. Vladimir Badovinac receives a five-year MIRA research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Thursday, January 23, 2020
Dr. Vladimir Badovinac received a five-year NIH MIRA(Maximizing Investigators' Research Award) R35 entitled ‘Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Sepsis-induced Immunoparalysis State’...

Drs. Vladimir Badovinac and John Harty receive a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Thursday, January 16, 2020
Drs. Vladimir Badovinac and John Harty have successfully renewed their R01 grant entitled ‘Memory CD8 T Cell Localization and Protection from Influenza’ from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)...

Dr. Andrean Simons-Burnett Receives a Merit Award from the Department of Veteran Affairs

Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Dr. Andrean Simons-Burnett received a four-year Merit Award grant from the Department of Veteran Affairs entitled “IL-1-based immunotherapy in HNSCC”...

Dr. Sterling Ortega receives a Pilot Research Grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society

Friday, January 10, 2020
Dr. Sterling Ortega received a one year pilot grant from the National MS Society entitled, “The Neuro-reparative Role of Myelin-specific CD8 T-cells in EAE Recovery”...

Dr. Chen Zhao receives a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Dr. Chen Zhao received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Heat Shock Transcription Factor 1 (HSF1) Specifically Regulates AML Stem Cell Self-Renewal”...

Dr. Munir Tanas receives a five-year research grant from the National Institutes of Health

Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Dr. Munir Tanas received a five-year NIH R01 grant entitled “Epigenetic Modulation of the TAZ-CAMTA1 Transcriptional Program by the Ada2a-containing Histone Acetyltransferase (ATAC) Complex”...

Laura Collins to receive award at 2020 American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) Annual Meeting

Tuesday, December 3, 2019
The American Society for Apheresis (ASFA) recently announced that that Laura Collins, RN, BSN, HP(ASCP) – Assistant Manager of the DeGowin Blood Center, is the recipient of the Society for Hemapheresis Specialists (SHS) Award...

New approaches to improve gene-editing techniques

Monday, November 4, 2019
Dr. David Meyerholz is part of a multidisciplinary team that recently developed new approaches to significantly improve gene editing techniques...

UI pathology professor’s Nobel connection

Thursday, October 17, 2019
Bing-Hua Jiang participated in early research that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine...