News Archive

Drs. Janz and Tanas Receive Cancer Center Pilot Grants for Studies Using the High Throughput Screening Facility

Wednesday, March 8, 2017
March 8, 2017 Dr. Siggy Janz and Dr. Munir Tanas, and their respective research teams, received 1-year pilot awards from the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center for studies utilizing the High Throughput Screening (HTS) Facility...

Dr. Weizhou Zhang Receives Four Institutional and Philanthropic Grants to Support Cancer Research

Tuesday, March 7, 2017
March 7, 2017 Kimberly A. Stack Basler Breast Cancer Research Fund...

Pathology Faculty Members Receive Carver Trust Medical Research Initiative Grants

Monday, February 13, 2017
February 13, 2017 Drs. Bradley Ford, Siegfried Janz, Kevin Legge and Ashutosh Mangalam were each awarded $30,000 Medical Research Initiative Grants from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust...

Nick Borcherding received a four-year NIH/NCI F30 NRSA fellowship, entitled “The Role of Paracrine WNT5A/RYK in ErbB2-driven Tumorigenesis.”

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
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...

Dr. Siegfried “Siggy” Janz received a five-year NIH R01 research grant entitled “Biological Validation of Candidate Myeloma Driver Genes"

Thursday, January 12, 2017
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)...

Drs. Matthew Krasowski and Amelia Fierro-Fine, Study Ethanol Levels at Iowa Football Games

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

Dr. Munir Tanas Receives a Merit Award from the Department of Veteran Affairs

Friday, December 30, 2016
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."...

Dr. Leslie Bruch Elected to the CCOM Medical Education Council

Wednesday, December 28, 2016
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...

Badovinac Lab Wins Multiple Trainee Awards

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

Mangalam Lab Wins Multiple Trainee Awards

Monday, November 21, 2016
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.