January 17, 2017 The preliminary findings were published in a Cancer Research article in 2015 and led to the hypothesis that the WNT5A/RYK signaling module spatiotemporally regulates breast tumor outgrowth...

January 12, 2017 The envisioned studies constitute a highly collaborative, inter-departmental research effort that will involve valued colleagues from Pathology (Drs. Carol Holman, Xuefang Jing and Ramakrishna Sompallae), Internal Medicine (Fenghuang “Frank” Zhan and Guido Tricot), Radiology (Drs. John Sunderland and Susan Walsh) and the College of Pharmacy (Dr. Meng Wu)...

January 12, 2017 The rate of severe alcohol intoxication at University of Iowa football games has decreased since 2009...

December 30, 2016 Dr. Munir Tanas received a four-year VA Merit Award, entitled "Upstream regulation of TAZ and YAP in sarcomas: towards combinatorial therapy targeting the Hippo Pathway."...

December 28, 2016 Dr. Leslie Bruch is one of five faculty members recently elected to serve on the Medical Education Council (MEC) for a three year term starting in January 2017...

December 9, 2016 Derek Danahy received the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award for the Spring 2017 semester...

November 21, 2016 Shailesh K. Shahi has been awarded Multiple Sclerosis Society’s (NMSS) Travel Award for 2016 Autumn Immunology Conference, held in Chicago November 18-21, 2016 for his research in the laboratory of Dr. Ashutosh K. Mangalam.

November 17, 2016 Most of the extra vials of blood drawn for laboratory tests never get used and are instead discarded.

Our Eleventh Annual Pathology Research Day was held on Tuesday, November 15th, 2016. Morning research presentations by faculty and trainees took place in the H.P. Smith Conference Room (W256 GH) and the plenary presentation, given by Dr. Anirban Maitra was held at 1:00 PM in 2117 MERF.

November 15, 2016 Ashley Brate has received the Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Award. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system characterized by the infiltration of immune cells across the blood-brain barrier.