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Thiel receives $100,000 cancer research fellowship
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Kristina Wyatt Thiel, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, is the recipient of a two-year, $100,000 fellowship from the Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseUI team helps piece together genetic puzzle of schizophrenia
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University of Iowa researchers contributed to a study that found a particular genetic variation is associated with schizophrenia. The severe mental health disorder affects nearly 1 percent of people in the United States and can include delusions, hallucinations and confused thinking.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseEngineers use flood of 2008 for research, future preparation
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In a case of "making lemonade out of lemons," researchers at the University of Iowa College of Engineering's IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering research unit are using data collected on the flood of 2008 to study floods in general and prepare for any future floods along the Iowa River in particular.
Continue Reading / View Full Press Release'Outsiders' receive grant to study asthma
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A research grant program that encourages "thinking outside the box" will allow a team of University of Iowa investigators to apply findings from heart research to the study of asthma. Specifically, the team has received a three-year, $750,000 grant from the Strategic Program for Asthma Research, known as SPAR, to see if an enzyme known to play a role in heart failure might also affect smooth muscle cells in the airway and thus play a role in asthma. The basic science research focuses on CaM kinase II, which has been under scrutiny in other UI research.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseUI and ISU establish shared DNA sequencing instrumentation
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The University of Iowa and Iowa State University are pooling their resources to significantly enhance both institutions' genetic research capabilities. The two institutions have each purchased a massively parallel DNA sequencer -- an instrument capable of deciphering DNA sequences at the rate of millions to billions of bases in a single run. The two machines -- each with unique advantages -- will be available on a fee-for-service basis to researchers at both universities and to other institutions and private companies. Together, the two instruments represent the state-of-the-art in DNA sequencing technology.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseUI external support is a record $386.2 million for 2007-08
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University of Iowa faculty, together with staff and students, generated an all-time record $386.2 million in grants and contracts for UI research, education and service during fiscal 2008, a 2.2 percent increase from 2007.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseSegal receives grant for aging-related research
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Neil Segal, M.D., assistant professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $1.18 million grant from the Paul B. Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research Program. Segal was one of only 13 physicians honored with Beeson grants this year.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseUI helps identify gene mutation related to atrial fibrillation
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Mayo Clinic and University of Iowa researchers have identified a new mechanism of atrial fibrillation, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat). The researchers discovered a mutation in a gene that encodes a hormone originating in the atria of the heart, and they established the mutation as causative of atrial fibrillation. This discovery opens a new avenue to pursue for possible treatments.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseWiderNet, Intel team up to enhance digital resources in developing nations
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The University of Iowa's WiderNet Project is teaming up with Intel Corporation to make a major improvement to its eGranary Digital Library, an off-line resource that provides digital information in developing countries that lack adequate Web access. Intel will sponsor the creation of a Community Information Platform for the eGranary Digital Library, enabling users to easily add their own content to the eGranary's existing collection of information from Web pages and CD-ROMs. Intel will also purchase multiple eGranaries to use as demonstration pilots for its World Ahead Program. Without the enhancement, only people with certain technical skills could add to the library; now, anyone could. Intel officials said they are pleased to partner with WiderNet to enable developing communities to create and store their own digital content. For more information visit www.widernet.org.
Continue Reading / View Full Press ReleaseLeducq Foundation international grant aids UI heart research
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A major international grant will help University of Iowa researchers collaborate with investigators worldwide to see if a relatively unexplored chemical pathway can be used to create improved treatments for heart failure and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), which are leading causes of death in Americans and Europeans.
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