May 1 - Jung-Ja Kim, PhD, received a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the structure and function of enzymes involved in fatty acid oxidation. WauwatosaNOW
Apr 25 - The Medical College of Wisconsin received a four-year, $1.5 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health to study the structure and function of enzymes involved in fatty acid oxidation.
Apr 23 - Two Department of Biochemistry students in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences won honors for their poster presentations at the Wisconsin Stem Cell Symposium. Subarna Bhattacharya, in Dr. Rebekah Gundry's lab, won first place, and Kurt Kolander, in Dr. Ravi Misra's lab, won second place.
Apr 10 - The Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI), the Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research (PCOR) and the Milwaukee Chapter of the American Statistical Association are sponsoring a two-day R workshop on the advanced topics of Bioinformatics with Bioconductor and seamless R/C++ integration. The workshop will be on Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, in MCW’s Kerrigan Auditorium.
March 12 - Rebekah Gundry, PhD, (Biochemistry) received the 2013 Robert J. Cotter Young Investigator Award from the U.S. Human Proteome Organization. WauwatosaNOW
Feb 26 - Rebekah Gundry, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, has been awarded the 2013 Robert J. Cotter Young Investigator Award by the U.S. Human Proteome Organization (US HUPO).
Feb. 12 - Brian Volkman, PhD, (Biochemistry) discussed his research on proteins and their potential to slow metastasizing tumors on WUWM’s “Lake Effect.” WUWM FM
Nov., 05 - R. Blake Hill, PhD, a recognized leader in protein chemistry, has been appointed Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He comes from Johns Hopkins University, where he was Associate Professor of Biology and Chemistry. Dr. Hill’s research is focused on proteins that regulate the mitochondrial lifecycle during aging, neurodegeneration and cancer.
Oct. 30 - Two Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) female faculty researchers were honored at MCW’s annual Women in Science Awards Luncheon on Oct. 25. The luncheon, held at the Medical College, was the final event in the sixth annual Women in Science series, and was presented by Quarles & Brady and Dr. Lucille Rosenberg. The awards included a $10,000 research award to an established scientist and the $1,000 Edward J. Lennon, M.D. award to an outstanding woman postdoctoral researcher.
Aug. 02 - Scientists from the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) and Froedtert Hospital received a one-year, $20,000 grant from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute of Southeast Wisconsin (CTSI) to investigate the use of personalized therapies to treat a common type of cancerous brain tumor, called glioblastoma multiforme.
The Senior Awards Dinner for the Medical School Class of 2011 was held May 19, 2011, at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. The night was an opportunity to celebrate four years of accomplishment with friends and family.
The 99th annual commencement took place on May 18 at the Milwaukee Theatre, at which the Medical College of Wisconsin and its Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences awarded 202 MD, 38 PhD, 27 MS, 4 MA, and 18 Master of Public Health degrees, as well as bestowed numerous honors.
July 12 - The Medical College of Wisconsin received a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The grant will fund an investigation of the three-dimensional structure of the protein assembly that forms around RNA polymerase II (Pol II), the crucial enzyme that reads the genetic information stored on chromosomes and puts it into a form of biopolymer—RNA—that can then be used for protein synthesis.
July 02 - The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) received a two-year, $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to investigate a promising biological avenue for treating nerves affected by botulism.
John Baker, PhD, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Chemistry, discusses the Human Microbiome Project and its importance in both current and future health research. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 23 - Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin have identified novel biomarkers that could be used to confirm exposure to damaging radiation in large groups of people potentially exposed to unknown and variable doses for the purpose of triage and treatment.