Notables

Of note

Jeffrey G. Catalano, PhD, assistant professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a five-year, $460,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Nanoscale Mineral Transformations During Biochemical Cycling and the Fate of Trace Elements and Nutrients.” …

Jeff Gill, PhD, professor of political science in Arts & Sciences and director of the Center for Applied Statistics, has received a one-year, $67,859 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Identifying Structure in Social Data Models Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms.” …

Yina Huang, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and immunology, has received a five-year, $1.9 million grant from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research titled “PIP3-Independent Regulation of AKT1 Activity in T Cells.” …

Matthew Painschaub, a medical student, has received a $2,500 grant from the American Medical Association Foundation’s Seed Grant Research Program for research titled “The Role of Hypoxic-Responsive Plasma Biomarkers in Chronic Mountain Sickness: EPO, VEGF, and Endothelin-1.” …

Herbert W. Virgin IV, MD, PhD, the Edward Mallinckrodt Professor and head of Pathology and Immunology, director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, and professor of molecular microbiology and of medicine, has received a three-year, $930,000 grant from the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America for research titled “Virome and Crohn’s Disease (CD) Pathogenesis.”

Obituary

Klippel, School of Medicine faculty for 48 years, 87

Allen P. Klippel, MD, assistant professor emeritus of medicine and assistant professor emeritus of clinical surgery, died Wednesday, March 30, 2011, of natural causes in St. Louis. He was 87. He joined the clinical faculty in 1954 and the full-time faculty in 1969. He retired in 2002.