Celebrating the Alpert Prize
Michael Welsh, MD, described the day in 1990 he went to then-Chair of Internal Medicine Dr. Frank Abboud to ask for a sabbatical. “He said,…
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I’M IOWA – Your HR Newsletter – November 2018
New Volunteer Time Release Policy A new Volunteer Time Release for university employees was recently posted to the University Operations Manual. As proposed by University…
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Helminth-Induced Production of TGF-β and Suppression of Graft-versus-Host Disease Is Dependent on IL-4 Production by Host Cells
Article: Helminth-Induced Production of TGF-β and Suppression of Graft-versus-Host Disease Is Dependent on IL-4 Production by Host Cells Authors: Yue Li, Xiaoqun Guan, Weiren Liu,…
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SHM Poster Session and 2018 Chapter Meeting
For the third year since aligning with the Progress conference, the Iowa Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) has produced a poster session…
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Our Engine of Innovation and Discovery
We regularly share news of work that is supported by basic or translational research grants, but there is a significant portion of breakthrough work being…
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ACP Iowa Chapter 2018 Meeting
Coinciding with the 2018 Progress conference, the Iowa Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) held its meeting at the end of the day’s…
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Weiss Receives $2.3M R01
Robert Weiss, MD, Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been awarded a five-year, $2.3 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health…
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Highlights from Progress 2018
Now well into its fourth decade, Progress: Learning Together in the 21st Century is one of the most widely attended Continuing Medical Education conferences that…
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Lenert Joins NIH Oversight Board
Petar Lenert, MD, MSc, PhD, has been invited to join the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) on behalf of the NIH’s National Institute of…
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Bugs in the system: bringing the human microbiome to bear in cancer immunotherapy
Article: Bugs in the system: bringing the human microbiome to bear in cancer immunotherapy Authors: Christopher Strouse, Ashutosh Mangalam, and Jun Zhang Journal: Gut Microbes….
