Happiness found in "perfect match"
March 17, was a rewarding day for Year IV students at Wayne State’s School of Medicine who had anxiously - and patiently - been awaiting the 1998 National Residency Match Program results. In the tradition of Match Day, envelopes were ripped open, shouts filled the air and students hugged, cried and exhaled sighs of relief upon learning where they are headed for residencies.
Children’s Research Center supports translational work
The mission of the newly established Children’s Research Center is to provide the infrastructure and resources necessary for translational research. It brings together physicians, statisticians, epidemiologists, and other scientists who will build on existing academic and scientific initiatives to develop improved treatments, cures and preventions for pediatric diseases.
Neuroscience program builds partnerships
One of Wayne State University’s most promising medical researchers has just scored another noteworthy accomplishment. The Janssen Research Foundation and its parent corporation, Johnson and Johnson, recently awarded Kenneth Maiese, MD, a five-year grant to investigate and develop new treatments for neurodegenerative disorders such as stroke, cerebrovascular disease, cerebral trauma, and Alzheimer’s disease.
Biofeedback as alternative treatment for ADD/ADHD
According to John DeLuca, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences, neurofeedback is an EEG biofeedback technique that trains patients to alter their own brain wave patterns and correct symptoms of attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD).
New role for bacteriorhodopsin
Richard Needleman, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Gang-Yu Liu, PhD, assistant professor of chemistry, have undertaken an ambitious endeavor: finding ways of making sensors by combining his bacteriorhodopsin mutants with her newly developed nanofabrication protocols to produce ultrasmall sensors.
Transforming biological energy
William Brusilow, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has a three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is synthesized to provide energy for all living things.
Proteins act as chaperones
Sharon Ackerman, PhD, has identified two proteins that act as chaperones in assembling the enzyme ATP synthase. Like their human counterparts who make sure the evening goes smoothly without turning the date into a threesome, these proteins help build the ATP synthase without becoming part of the final enzyme.
Adolescents get dual treatment
Elizabeth Corby, PhD, is examining new ways to provide comprehensive treatments to adolescents who suffer from substance abuse problems and co-existing psychiatric disorders such as depression or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
School of Medicine welcomes new chairs
The Wayne State University School of Medicine announced the appointment of three departmental chairs this spring: Dr. Marsh in anesthesiology, Dr. DeSilva in orthopaedic surgery, and Dr. Dunbar in physiology.
Dr. Porter appointed associate dean
Arthur Porter, MD, professor and chair of radiation oncology, has been named associate dean of health care initiatives at the Wayne State University School of Medicine and senior vice president at The Detroit Medical Center (DMC).
J.P. McCarthy Foundation funds two WSU researchers
Wayne State faculty members, Roger Dansey, MD, and Jared Klein, MD were awarded basic research grants from the J.P. McCarthy Research Foundation, which is dedicated to the investigation and cure of blood disorders.
Dr. Powell to lead prostate cancer study
Isaac Powell, MD, associate professor of urology, has been named a principal investigator for a federal study of the causes of prostate cancer in black men. Funded with $800,000 by the National Cancer Institute and the Human Genome Project, the study will be conducted in Detroit and at six other sites around the country.
Core vision grant renewed
Vision research at Wayne State University will be continued and enhanced through the renewal of a substantial core grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With nearly $1.8 million, Linda Hazlett, PhD, will oversee collaborative vision research efforts among several WSU departments.
Code Blue wins service awards
Code Blue swept Wayne State University’s 18th annual Student Leadership Awards program, winning both group honors: Outstanding Student Organization of the Year and the Outstanding Community Service Award. The program consists of WSU medical students who volunteer their time to improve the adolescent health crisis in the community.
Doubly honored
For the second year in a row, the Child Neurology Society selected Gyula Acsadi, MD, to receive one of its three annual Outstanding Resident/Junior Member Awards.
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