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IGSB Senior Fellow Janet Rowley wins the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology
Janet Davison Rowley, MD, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, will share the 2012 Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology with Brian J. Druker, MD, from the Oregon Health and Science University, and Nicholas B. Lydon, PhD, formerly with Novartis. They were chosen for their roles in the development of the first precisely targeted anti-cancer drug, called imatinib (Gleevec®). Press Release
IGSB Fellow Habibul Ahsan receives named professorship
Habibul Ahsan, MD, MMedSc, professor in the departments of health studies, human genetics and medicine, director of the Center for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention at the University of Chicago Medical Center and associate director of the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named a Louis Block Professor. Press Release
Top Japanese Scientist leaving government post to move to the University of Chicago Medical Center
“Dr. Nakamura has made major contributions to modern genetics and genomics,” said Kenneth Polonsky, MD, Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago. “We are extremely gratified by his interest in continuing his illustrious career at the University of Chicago.” Press Release
IGSB Core Faculty Robert Grossman appointed Chief Research Informatics Officer of the Division of the Biological Sciences
Robert Grossman, PhD, assumed the role of chief research informatics officer and is currently overseeing a research group focused on bioinformatics, data mining, data intensive computing and related areas. Press Release
Earth Microbiome Project to catalogue world’s microbes
An initiative called the Earth Microbiome Project, led by Jack Gilbert at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and including scientists all over the world, is tackling the massive task of cataloguing the DNA of all those microbes. The knowledge could potentially one day help us understand climate change, increase world food production and even avoid unnecessary surgeries.Press Release
Upcoming Events
A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism
IMMU-SM A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism
Submitting Unit:
Committee on Immunology
Type of Event: Seminar
Date of Event: Monday, February 6 2012
Start Time: 4:00 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
Building: BSLC 115
Name of Series, Lectureship, Ceremony:
COI Seminar Series
Title of talk or presentation:
A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism
Speaker’s Name and Degrees:
Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
Speaker’s Institutional Affiliation:
Harvard University
Description:
Biomedical Sciences Cluster
Committee on Immunology Seminar Series
Presents:
Peter Turnbaugh, PhD
Center for Systems Biology
Harvard University
“A Metagenomic View of Nutrition and Drug Metabolism”
Hosted By Eugene Chang.
Persons needing assistance or have questions should contact Jo Beaudreau at 2-1857.
Contact Name:
Biomedical Sciences Cluster
Contact Email:
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Contact Phone:
7737021857