Videos of the presentations, scholar talks and the workshops from the The 4th Meeting of the Upper Midwest Consortium of clinical and translational science organizations are now available online.
Keynote Address: Personalized Medicine Through Multi-Scale Pulmonary Imaging - Eidomics and Other Things -- Geoffrey McLennan MD PhD. Director of the Translational Lung Imaging Research Program
University of Iowa research that aims to help improve treatments for schizophrenia has been funded by a two-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health. The grant is effective July 1.
The study focuses on the genetic basis of schizophrenia, which affects 1 percent of the world's population and likely accounts for most long-term disability in the United States.
"Our research focuses on identifying genetic abnormalities called copy number variations. This information eventually could help us determine which patients with schizophrenia would respond best to particular medications," said Tom Wassink, M.D., the study's principal investigator and associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the UI Carver College of Medicine and UI Children's Hospital. "Currently, some patients respond well to certain drug therapies, while others do not."
The University of Iowa hosts the SAS Summer Training Institute July 6-9 2009.
Audience: Research faculty, staff, and students at UI and UI affiliates
SAS® – A Rapid Introduction
1:00 – 4:40, Monday, July 6, Capitol Centre Seminar Room (2520D UCC)
A lecture / demonstration introduction to SAS® as a language for data management and
analysis. After this session, participants will understand the power of the language, and the
basics of accessing, managing, analyzing, and presenting data using SAS®. Open to all; limited to
70; no cost. Registration requested.
Most of us are aware of our environment in terms of the obvious: the shape of a river, the scent of the air we breathe, the presence or absence of wild creatures. As well, the environmental issues we care the most about exist in the realm of the readily apparent. Our common concerns exist mainly on a tangible scale, ranging from issues of clean, non-polluted water on to such grand matters as global warming. However, the environment we all encounter also exists on a scale so profoundly small that we cannot perceive with our unaided senses. This is the scale of the nanometer, a measurement of things one-billionth of a meter in size.
The American Heart Association has announced its National Center and Midwest Affiliate award programs for the July 2009 application cycle. Note that opportunities this cycle are quite limited, as the AHA has suspended the National Established Investigator Award, National Innovative Research Grant, Midwest Affiliate Grant-in-Aid, and Midwest Affiliate Scientist Development Grant, closing them to application this cycle and possibly the next.
