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Videos from the The 4th Meeting of the Upper Midwest Consortium are now Available Online

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

Schizophrenia Research at UI Receives $1.6 Million NIH Grant

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."

SAS® Summer Training Institute at Iowa

SAS Summer Training Institute at Iowa

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.

Vicki Grassian -- Profile in Translation

Vicki Grassian

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.

AHA Award Programs: July 2009 Application Cycle

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.

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