Elective Makes Curriculum More Pain-Full
An elective course at DMU is addressing the absence of pain management in standard medical curricula.
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Getting the big picture of tiny brain cells
LiLian Yuan, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology and pharmacology, won the inaugural scientific photo competition at the ninth annual DMU Research Symposium on Dec. 6 with this image of cerebellar Purkinje cells in a mouse’s brain, taken with a Nikon
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Shared space spurs collaboration
Curiosity is creating an audible buzz among students and faculty engaged in DMU’s increasingly robust research enterprise. This story is part of “Research Engines,” a series on the questions being asked and investigated by DMU researchers. While DMU’s faculty and
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DMU researchers attract grants with diverse research
Julie Meachen, Ph.D., is fascinated by carnivores and willing to spelunk to find their remains. Her explorations in Wyoming’s Natural Trap Cave in summer 2014 and 2015 may provide clues about our own future amid climate and temperature change. Eric
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Yuan battles depression with NIH grant
Curiosity is creating an audible buzz among students and faculty engaged in DMU’s increasingly robust research enterprise. This story is part of “Research Engines,” a series on the questions being asked and investigated by DMU researchers. “If we rank the
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Wauson awarded $200,000 for cardiovascular research
Eric Wauson, Ph.D., has been awarded more than $200,000 by the American Heart Association (AHA) to fund his research into autophagy in relation to the heart. Autophagy is a normal process cells use to save themselves from starvation. They feast on their
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Aaron Shoskes, D.O.’18, explores link between chronic stress and gut bacteria
Aaron Shoskes, D.O.’18, gave a platform presentation titled “A possible link between chronic stress and the microbiome: a metagenomic analysis” at the Society for Infection and Inflammation in Urology as part of the American Urological Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans May 15-19.
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Vanja Duric, Ph.D., Awarded $100,000 Grant
Vanja Duric, Ph.D., faculty member in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology in the College of Medicine was recently awarded a $100,000 Research Starter Grant in Pharmacology/Toxicology from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA). Dr. Duric was awarded
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Physiology and Pharmacology well represented at annual meeting
The 17th Annual Iowa Physiological Society Meeting was held on campus September 21 and the Physiology and Pharmacology Department was well represented. The department had nine poster presentations as well as two platform presentations given by Kim Tran, M.D., Ph.D.,
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Alumni spotlight on the Boston Marathon
Julia Moffitt, David Reinhardt, Eric Lew and Jake Summers were at different locations during the Boston Marathon on April 15, but when the first bomb exploded at approximately 2:50 p.m., they had the same thought: Something bad had happened. “The sound
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