Fifty Years of Celebrating Internal Medicine Research
We are looking forward with excitement to our upcoming annual Research Day on March 2. For fifty years, the Department of Internal Medicine has invited…
Research
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CaMKII inhibition in type II pneumocytes protects from bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis by preventing Ca2+dependent apoptosis
AUTHORS: Christopher J. Winters, Olha Koval, Shubha Murthy, Chantal Allamargot, Sara C. Sebag, John D. Paschke, Omar A. Jaffer, A. Brent Carter, Isabella M. Grumbach…
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Research Innovations: CF Mice and Biobanking Consent
We are now nearly a month into the new semester and well into the second month of this new year. I hope that new routines…
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Dare to Look Up
Last month some new banners appeared around Iowa City as part of an initiative by the Office of Research and Development at the University of…
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Emerging innovative therapeutic approaches targeting PCSK9 to lower lipids
AUTHORS: GPS Shantha and JG Robinson (Dr. Shantha is a Cardiology Fellow) JOURNAL: Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 99(1):59–71, January 2016 Abstract: Statins are established therapies…
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Dale Abel: Cheerleader in chief for diabetes team (Medicine Iowa)
One of E. Dale Abel’s mentors at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica, was the School of Medicine chairman, whose strong interest…
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A cystic fibrosis mystery solved (IowaNow)
New research from the University of Iowa answers a question that has vexed cystic fibrosis (CF) researchers for almost 25 years: Why don’t mice with…
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February 2016: Steven Bullard
Steven Bullard, Research Specialist, has spent nearly 30 years in labs around this university, but that was not his original plan. Born and raised in…
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Initial Surgery and Survival in Stage IV Breast Cancer in the United States, 1988-2011
Treatment options for patients with Stage 4 breast cancer have, in recent years, been largely centered around a combination of radiation and chemotherapy, while surgery…
