David L. Eisenberg, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists/Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Research Award in Long-Term Contraception. This $26,000 award is given to a junior fellow or fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists to perform research in the area of non-daily contraception, such as proper use and administration, factors affecting patient acceptance and compliance and non-contraceptive benefits. …
Joan Hall, the Kenneth E Hudson Professor of Art, will be having an opening of her Installation: Your Existence Is Not Unlike My Own, at the Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark, May 29. The exhibition runs from May 29-Sept. 5. …
Jennifer Lawton, MD, associate professor of surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has received a five-year, $1.33 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Exploitation of the KATP Channel Opener Diazoxide during Cardiac Surgery.”…
Liviu Mirica, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $5,000 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for research titled “Novel Chemical Agents for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease.” …
Michael P. Whyte, MD, professor of medicine, of pediatrics and of genetics, and his team will receive the Henning Andersen Prize for best clinical abstract submitted to the 49th annual meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology to be held in Prague, Czech Republic, Sept. 22-25, 2010, for their research titled “Hypophosphatasia: Enzyme Replacement Therapy for Affected Children Using Bone-Targeted, Tissue-Nonspecific Alkaline Phosphatase.”
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