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Congratulations to the following who have received honors! J Claudia Baquet, MD, MPH, professor, Department of Medicine, and associate dean for Policy and Planning, received the CISCRP, or The Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation, Award for Supporting Public Outreach and Community Building. Representing the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Dr. Baquet delivered the opening presentation during AWARE for All, the clinical education day organized by CISCRP in Baltimore in May 2009. Additionally, Dr. Baquet was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Gamma Chapter, of Tennessee. Criteria for membership are exceptional scholarship, fairness in dealing with colleagues, integrity, capable and effective leadership, compassionate patient care and outstanding academic research and accomplishments. J Amber Beitelshees, PharmD, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received the 2009 American College of Clinical Pharmacy Cardiology Practice Research Network Junior Investigator Award. This award recognizes outstanding early career research in the area of cardiovascular pharmacotherapy. J The Department of Medicine’s Division of Cardiology created the Gary D. Plotnick, MD, Teacher of the Year Award to be awarded annually to the cardiology faculty member, as chosen by the cardiology fellows, as Amber Beitelshees, PharmD, MPH the best teacher over the preceding year. The recipient of the first annual Plotnick award was Robert E. Hood Jr., MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, who was presented with a plaque at the fellows’ farewell banquet on June 25, 2009.
J Gary D. Plotnick, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, was chosen by the University of Maryland School of Medicine Class of 2009 to receive a Student Council Faculty Award in the Pre-Clinical category. Dr. Plotnick received the award at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Convocation Ceremony on May 15, 2009. J The Department of Medicine’s Occupational Health Program was recently designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Occupation- Gary D. Plotnick, MD al Health. This designation recognizes existing collaborations in capacity building and expert consultations on occupational health topics requested by the Ministries of Health in the Americas and provided by Collaborating Center partners. In June 2009, Joanna Gaitens, PhD, MSN, MPH, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, and Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, professor, Department of Medicine, and director, Occupational Health Program, provided training to healthcare (L-R) Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, and leaders in Georgetown, Guyana, on hospiJoanna Gaitens, PhD, MSN, MPH, stand tal hazards and preparation for pandemic outside the Pan American Health Organizainfluenza at the invitation of the Guyation, a regional office of the World Health nese Ministry of Health. Organization, in Georgetown, Guyana, in the Caribbean.
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Events, Lectures
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Kudos to our colleagues who are experts in their fields and give their all to represent the School of Medicine! J Timm Dickfeld, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Medicine, presented “MRIBased Substrate Mapping: New Wave Voltage Mapping?,” ‘‘Is Robotic or CT Guided Ablation the Answer to Orthopedic and Radiation Risk?,’’ and “Integration of 3D DE MRI Scar in Patients with ICD for Guidance of VT Ablation” at the 2009 Heart Rhythm Society Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, in May 2009. In addition, Dr. Dickfeld chaired “Future Integrated Imaging and Robotics for AF Ablation Guidance’”and discussed Timm Dickfeld, MD, PhD “3-Dimensional Imaging Revolution: Rotational Angiography vs. 3D Ultrasound as the Anatomic Template for Ablation” at the 2009 Atrial Fibrillation Summit in Boston, in May 2009, and presented “Substrate Mapping: Role of Imaging” at the 2009 Europace Meeting in Berlin, Germany, in June 2009. J Katia Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, presented “Obscurin: A Muscle Giant That Regulates Sarcomere and Membrane Assembly” at the American Society for Cell Biology’s 48th Annual Meeting for the Special Interest Group Muscle Cytoskeletal Protein Assembly in Normal and Diseased Muscles in December 2008 in San Francisco, Calfornia. In addition, she presented “HAX-1: A Multifaceted Protein with Emerging Roles in Ca Cycling, Apoptosis and Cardiac Katia Kontrogianni-KonstantoFunction” at the International Society for Heart poulos, PhD Research Meeting in Baltimore in May 2009.
J Kevin D. Pereira, MD, MS, professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, was an invited speaker, presenting “Tracheostomy in Pre-term Infants,” at the International Federation of Otolaryngology Societies, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in June 2009. J Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH, professor, Department of Medicine and Center for Vaccine Development, participated in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Consultation with the Outside Community on Developing Clinical Research Infrastructure for Infectious Diseases: 2010 -2020, in Bethesda, Maryland, in July 2009. This consultation convened some of NIAID’s most experienced advisors and key staff to examine critical issues relevant to clinical research infrastructure, and to consider which models for Christopher Plowe, MD, MPH funding and conducting clinical research best meet NIAID’s goals for the next decade. In addition, Dr. Plowe presented “VaccineResistant Malaria” at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in Seattle, Washington, in July 2009. J Marcelo B. Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, presented “Characterization of the Complex Effector Immunity, Memory and Homing Patterns Elicited by Oral Immunization with Attenuated S. Typhi in Humans: A Window Into the Immune Responses at Mucosal and Systemic Sites” at the Seventh International Conference of Typhoid Fever and other Invasive Salmonelloses in Kilifi, Kenya, in January 2009. In addition, Dr. Sztein Marcelo B. Sztein, MD presented “Mucosal Immunological Memory” and participated as a session discussant at the Mucosal Immunology and Vaccines Meeting at the Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, in February 2009.
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J Richard Colgan, MD, associate On the A professor, Department of Famrt of Med icine ily & Community Medicine, authored a book, Advice to the Young Physician: On the Art of Medicine, which was released in October 2009 by Springer Publishing. Dr. Colgan wrote the book with the intent of revealing how to make the transition from technician to healer. He believes the book will be valuable supplemental reading to the medical Richard Colgan, MD student curriculum on medical humanism. Advice to the Young Physician has been favorably reviewed by medical educators, residents and students. For more information, please visit www.advicetotheyoungphysician.com. 419-1033-
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J Curt I. Civin, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, associate dean for Research, and director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, and Sebastien Morisot, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, co-authored “Selective Reduction of Graft-VersusHost Disease-Mediating Human T cells by Ex Vivo Treatment with Soluble Fas Ligand” in the Journal of Immonology, 2009; 183: 696 - 705.
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J Wilbur Chen, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and Center for Vaccine Development, and Marcelo B. Stein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, co-authored “Vaccination in the Elderly: An Immunological Perspective” in Trends in Immunology, 2009, 30(7):351-357. In addition, Dr. Chen published “Safety and Immunogenicity of an Inactivated Subvirion Influenza AH5N1 Vaccine with and without Aluminum Hydroxide among Healthy Elderly Subjects” in Vaccine 2009, 27(37):5027-5170.
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Hats off to those who have been published! J Maureen Black, PhD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, published an article entitled “Maternal and Child Mental Health: The Role of Nutrition,” and edited a special supplemental issue, of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 89, 2009. In addition, Dr. Black, along with Kristen Hurley, PhD, MPH, assistant professor, and Sarah E. Oberlander, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, both from the Department of Pediatrics, coauthored the following publications, “Participants’ Comments on Changes in the WIC Food Packages: Maureen Black, PhD The Maryland Food Preference Study” in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 109(1):116-123, “Adolescent Mothers Leaving Multigenerational Households,” in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 62-74, and “‘The Healthy Eating Index and Youth Healthy Eating Index’ Are Unique, Nonredundant Measures of Diet Quality among Low-income, African American Adolescents” in the Journal of Nutrition, 139, 359-364.
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J Carrie Dorsey, MD, MPH, assistant professor, Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, professor, and Katherine Squibb, PhD, professor, all from the Department of Medicine, co-published an article entitled “Biological Monitoring for Depleted Uranium Expo- Katherine Squibb, PhD sure in US Veteran” in Environmental Health Perspectives, 117, June 2009.
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J Achsah D. Keegan, PhD, professor, and Svetlana Chapoval, PhD, assistant professor, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Program in Oncology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, co-published “Lung Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression Induces Local Myeloid Dendritic Cell Activation” in the
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Publications continued September 2009 issue of Clinical Immunology, 2009; 132:371-384. In addition, Dr. Keegan, along with Andrew Q. Ford, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, and Nicola Heller, PhD, post-doctoral fellow, both from the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Program in Oncology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, co-published “An Atopy-associated Polymorphism in the Ectodomain of the IL-4R(alpha) chain (V50) Regulates the Persistence of STAT6 Phosphorylation” in the August 2009 issue of the Journal of Immunology, 183: 1607-1616). This article was highlighted by MDLinx (www.MDLinx.com) in the Allergy/Immunology Section as a paper of interest to clinical allergists. J Katia Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, published “The Anti-apoptotic Protein HAX-1 Interacts with SERCA2 and Regulates Its Protein Levels to Promote Cell Survival” in Molecular Biology of the Cell, 20(1), 2009. Additionally, Dr. Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, along with Solomon Yap, PhD, and Maegen Ackermann, PhD, both post-doctoral fellows, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Robert Bloch, PhD, professor, Department of Physiology, co-published “Muscle Giants: Molecular Templates in Sarcomerogenesis” in Physiological Reviews. Drs. Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos, Ackermann and Bloch also co-published “Obscurin Interacts with a Novel Isoform of Myosin Binding Protein C-Slow to Regulate the Assembly of Thick Filaments” in Molecular Biology of the Cell. J Kirsten E. Lyke, MD, assistant professor, and Christopher V. Plowe, MD, professor, both from the Department of Medicine and Center for Vaccine Development, and Marcelo B. Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, co-authored a paper entitled “Cell Mediated Immunity Elicited by the Blood Stage Malaria Vaccine Apical Membrane Antigen 1 in Malian Adults: Results of a Phase I Randomized Trial” in Vaccine, 2009, 27: 21712176. In addition, Dr. Sztein co-authored, along with Rosangela Mezghanni, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Kirsten E. Lyke, MD
Development, “Priming of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi-specific CD8+ T cells by Suicide Dendritic Cell Cross-presentation in Humans” in PLoS ONE, 2009, 4: e5879. J Kevin D. Pereira, MD, MS, professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, is co-editor of a newly-published textbook in pediatric otolaryngology, Pediatric Otolaryngology for the Clinician, which is a Rosangela Mezghanni, PhD user-friendly resource for practicing general otolaryngologists, pediatricians and family practice physicians. For more information, visit www.springer. com/humana+press/book/978-1-58829-542-2. J E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, vice president for Medical Affairs, University of Maryland, John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and Kevin D. Pereira, MD, MS dean, University of Maryland School of Medicine, received a certificate from the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in recognition of a paper, “Diabetes Mellitus and Birth Defects,” that he co-authored and that was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2008;199:237.e1-237.e9. The paper was part of a nomination for demonstrating excellence in science as a candidate for the Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Assessment and Epidemiology. Dr. Reece received the certificate notification in June 2009. J Matthew C. Trudeau, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Physiology, co-authored a paper entitled “A Recombinant N-terminal Domain
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In Memoriam
Publications continued Fully Restores Deactivation Gating in N-truncated and Long QT syndrome Mutant hERG Potassium Channels” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, published online before print, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0900180106.
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J Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine and Mucosal Biology Research Center, was the senior author on an article entitled “IL-13 Receptor a2 Regulates the Immune and Functional Response to Nippostrongylus brasiliensis Infection” in the August 2009 edition of the Journal of Immunology, 183 (3). Aiping Zhao, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and Mucosal Biology Research Center, was a co-author.
J Gerald Wilson, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Program in Oncology, along with Noelle Vargas, graduate student, and Terry Rogers, PhD, professor, both from the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, co-authored “Protein Gerald Wilson, PhD Kinase C Activation Stabilizes LDL Receptor mRNA Via the JNK Pathway in HepG2 Cells” in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Lipid Research. In addition, Dr. Wilson, along with Sarah Brennan, graduate student, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, co-published a Terry Rogers, PhD paper entitled “The mRNA-Destabilizing Protein Tristetraprolin Is Suppressed in Many Cancers, Altering Tumorigenic Phenotypes and Patient Prognosis” in the June 15, 2009, issue of Cancer Research.
J Brian E. Emery, MD, a former assistant professor in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, died in a motor vehicle accident on September 10, 2009, near his home in Sykesville, Maryland. He was 49. Dr. Emery was initially educated as a pharmacist before graduating from the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine in 1988. After completing a residency in otolaryngology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, he completed a facial plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowBrian E. Emery, MD ship at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He was board certified in both otolaryngology and facial plastic and reconstructive surgery. Dr. Emery was recruited by Douglas Mattox, MD, past chair of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, to be the first director of otolaryngology coverage in the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center facial trauma rotation. Dr. Emery’s clinical interests also included snoring and sleep apnea surgery. Moreover, his devotion to clinical education resulted in his receiving the department’s coveted award for teaching excellence. Wanting to devote more time to his son Matthew, Dr. Emery left the School of Medicine to join a private practice in Greenbelt, Maryland, where he practiced until his accident. Dr. Emery will be remembered by his coworkers for his calm demeanor under pressure and the constant demand on himself and others to always do the right thing for patients. Most of all, he will be remembered as a proud and devoted father to his son and his love of all things Pittsburgh.
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School of Medicine Council Meeting
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Grants &
Contracts
Congratulations to our very productive faculty on their recent grants and contracts! J Toni Antalis, PhD, professor, Department of Physiology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, received a one-year $315,624 grant from the National Cancer Institute for her work entitled “New Function Serpin PAI 2 as a Regulator of RB.” Additionally, Dr. Antalis received a two-year $675,000 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for her work entitled “Protease Pathways in the Gastrointestinal Tract.” J Alexey Belkin, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry and Toni Antalis, PhD Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, received a two-year $229,964 grant from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation for his work entitled “The Role of Transglutaminase in Adhesion-dependent and Growth Factormediated Responses of Mesenchymal Stem Cells.” J Chunzhang Cao, PhD, research associate, Department Alexey Belkin, PhD of Physiology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, received a two-year $230,000 grant from the Maryland Technology Development Corporation for her work entitled “Activated Protein C Protects Mesenchymal Stem Cell from Ischemia-induced Death.”
Fluorescence Sensing.” With this grant, Dr. Lakowicz’s major goal is to study the interactions between fluorophores and plasmonic nanostructures and to apply this understanding into development of new assay formats for multi analytes with high sensitivity. J Stephen B. Liggett, MD, professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, received a five-year $1.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his work on the genomics of Gprotein coupled receptor signaling in the lung. The title of his grant is “Basis of Variability of Lung GPCR Signaling.”
J Iris Lindberg, PhD, professor, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, received the following two grants from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: a four-year $1.5 million R01 entitled “Control of Peptide Hormone Biosynthesis by PC2 and 7B2” and a two-year $412,000 R21 grant entitled “Identifying New Peptide Hormones.” In addition, Dr. Lindberg received a four-year $1.2 million grant from Iris Lindberg, PhD the National Institute on Drug Abuse for a Eureka project entitled “De-Orphanizing the Peptidome.” J Tony Passaniti, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pathology and Program in Oncology, received a two-year $154,000 grant from the American Heart Association for “Role of Hyperglycemia and Aldose Reductase in Regulating RUNX2 Transcription Factor Activity and Angiogenesis.”
J Svetlana Chapoval, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Center for Vascular Inflammatory Diseases, received a two-year $412,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for her work entitled “Immune Semaphorins in Allergic Airway Inflammation.”
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J Joseph Lakowicz, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received a two-year $250,000 Nanobiotechnology Research and Industry Grant from TEDCO for “Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence and its Application to
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J Lynn Schriml, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine and Institute for Genome Sciences, received a two-year $501,909 ARRA R01 grant from the National Center for Research Resources for her project
Grants and Contracts continued entitled “Disease Ontology: An Open Biomedical Ontology for Disease.” The ontology will provide a computable structure to facilitate the connection of genetic data, clinical data and symptoms from multiple databases with genetic, environmental and infectious disease. J Terez Shea-Donohue, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine and Mucosal Biology Research Center, received a one-year $300,000 RC1 Supplemental Award from National Institutes of Health for her grant entitled “Novel Therapy for Post-Irradiation Insult to Gut Mucosa.” J Nanette Steinle, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, received $134,694 in funding from the Endocrine Fellows Foundation to implement a program called “Improving Diabetes Management: A Training Program for Internal Medicine Residents,” which began in August 2009. J Dudley K. Strickland, PhD, professor, Departments of Surgery and Physiology, and director, Center for Nanette Steinle, MD Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, received a five-year $1,875,000 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for his work entitled “Regulation of Factor VIII Levels and Activity by Members of LDL Receptor Family.” J Marcelo B. Sztein, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Vaccine Development, received a five-year $14,786,549 National Institutes of Health Research Project Cooperative Agreement (U19) entitled “Mucosal Immunity, Vaccines and Microbiota Interplay in Humans and Animal Models” to establish a Cooperative Center for Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense (CCHI) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). Research at the UMB CCHI will focus on furthering our understanding of the protective immunological mechanisms that are elicited upon oral immunization in the gastrointestinal tract microenvironment. Moreover, the
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CCHI team of investigators will conduct pioneering studies on the interactions between the local intestinal microbiota and the host immunity following oral vaccination. Further goals of this grant involve the development of novel technologies to advance and accelerate vaccine development in humans. The award provides $2 million in direct costs per year and also involves Claire Fraser-Liggett, PhD, professor, Department of Medicine, and director, Institute of Genome Sciences, Steven Czinn, MD, professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics, Alessio Fasano, MD, professor, Department of Pediatrics, and director, Mucosal Biology Research Center, Tom Blanchard, PhD, associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, and Bruce Greenwald, MD, professor, Department of Medicine. J Koji Tamada, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Otorhinolarynology-Head and Neck Surgery and Program in Oncology, has been awarded a two-year $273,614 ARRA Supplement Grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for “Light Co-stimulatory Therapy of GVHD and GVL.” J Richard Thompson, PhD, associate professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, received a two-year $387,548 R01 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for his work entitled “Fluorescence Zinc Biosensing and Imaging Technology.” This award was funded under the Obama Administration’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The main goal of this project is to develop novel fluorescent sensing and imaging Richard Thompson, PhD technology for understanding the biology of zinc, with a view to developing novel and improved diagnostics and therapies for human diseases.
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J Edward Weinman, MD, professor, Department of Medicine, received a four-year $650,000 Veterans Affairs Merit Review Grant for his work entitled
Grants and Contracts continued “NHERF-1 and Dopamine-mediated Regulation of Renal Phosphate Transport.” J Jeffrey A. Winkles, PhD, professor, Departments of Surgery and Physiology and Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases, received a four-year $1,245,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute for his work entitled “TWEAK-Fn14 Signaling in the Tumor Microenvironment.” The first two years of this award are funded by the Obama administration’s American Recovery and ReinJeffrey A. Winkles, PhD vestment Act. Additionally, Dr. Winkles received a one-year $112,449 grant from the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program for his work entitled “Targeted Therapy of Fn14-Positive Breast Tumors Using a TWEAK-Cytotoxin Fusion Protein or Noncovalent Complex” and a five-year $337,500 subcontract award as a co-investigator on a National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant entitled “TWEAK-induced Ischemic Neuronal Death.”
J Jian Zhang, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Richard Y. Zhao, PhD, associate professor, Departments of Pathology and Microbiology & Immunology and Institute of Human Virology, received a two-year $397,500 R21 Award from the National Institutes of Health for their work entitled “Measurement of CCR5 and CCL3L1 on Single Cell by Fluorescent Metal Nanoparticle.” J Aiping Zhao, MD, assistant professor, Department of Medicine and Mucosal Biology Research Center, received a five-year $1.1 million R01 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for his project entitled “Novel Cytokine Regulation of Gut Function and Inflammation.” Jian Zhang, PhD
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