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Dana Program in Brain and Immuno-imaging Funding Opportunity
Deadline: Thursday, May 1
The U-M Medical School has been invited to submit one proposal for this grant program. Successful applicants will receive grants of up to $100,000 for up to three years for research focusing on developing and testing new uses of brain imaging technologies, creating new approaches to understanding brain processes, and monitoring brain activities or the effects of new therapies. Deadline for submission of a preliminary proposal to the foundation is 12 p.m., Tuesday, May 13. For consideration as the UMMS nominee, submit: a 1-2 page research summary, a CV, and a nominating letter from a department chair to the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, 4107 Med Sci I, Box 0624 by May 1. Contact: Denise Swayze, 763-4086 or dswayze@umich.edu. See the Dana website for complete details and eligibility requirements.

Medical Education Scholars Program Application
Deadline: Tuesday, April 15
The deadline for application to the Medical Education Scholars Program is Tuesday, April 15. The MESP provides participants with a valuable background in education principles and practices and prepares them to assume leadership roles in the educational arena. Program instructors and mentors include on-campus and visiting faculty with outstanding credentials in medical education. The curriculum is designed to emphasize practical applications of important educational concepts, techniques, and frameworks in a highly interactive, participatory setting. All Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health faculty and residents are eligible to participate in the program.

For further information, please see www.med.umich.edu/meded/MESP/description.html or contact Debbie Grifka, 6-1649 or dgrifka@umich.edu or Larry Gruppen, Ph.D., 6-1644 or lgruppen@umich.edu

Moses Gunn 15th Annual Research Conference
Department of Surgery is presenting The Moses Gunn 15th Annual Research Conference on Tuesday, April 15, at the Towsley Center beginning at 7:45 a.m. The keynote speaker, Murray F. Brennan, M.D., is the Chairman of Department of Surgery and holds the Benno C. Schmidt Chair in Clinical Oncology at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. His presentation entitled "Management of Soft Tissue Sarcoma” will begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Dow Auditorium. The conference will also showcase 20 oral presentations and 43 posters of faculty, fellows, staff, and students in the Department of Surgery and the presentation of three awards – The James W. Crudup Award, The Young Investigator Award and the conference’s Outstanding Poster Award. For more information about this event, please contact Eve Bernos at the Surgery Research Office, 936-7995.

Cancer Center Needs Help in Creating Humor Props
The UM Comprehensive Cancer Center needs help in creating humor props for itsCancer Survivors' Day Celebration to be held on Sunday, June 8. Humor props (e.g., smile-on-a-stick) can be made from "found objects" and decorated with messages of hope. Use your imagination and create a fun and colorful item. Suggestions are available to help get you started. All groups and individuals creating props will be recognized at the event. Please call 936-9583, email msolvay@umich.edu or visit www.mcancer.org for more information.

News Releases and Health Minute
For medical press releases and the details behind the headlines, visit http://www.med.umich.edu/opm/newspage/relarch.htm

Next Week's Health Minute
Small gland, big problems: Diagnosing thyroid disease

Seminars, lectures, colloquia and events for next week
To access the entire UMHS events database, see:
http://www.academic.med.umich.edu/LassoPages/ProStaffEvents.lasso


Monday, April 14, 2003

--12 p.m., Clinical Research Grand Round Series. Eugene Orringer, M.D., Executive Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, University of North Carolina Medical School, "New Career Opportunities for Clinician/Scientists: Mentored Research and Professional Development," MCHC Auditorium

--12 p.m., Bone Research Seminar. Gerard Karsenty, M.D., Ph.D.,
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, “Genetic Analysis of Skeletal Development and Physiology," LRC 2903

--4 p.m., Human Genetics Colloquium Seminar. James Elder, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Dermatology, "Genetics of Psoriasis: The MHC and Beyond," H.G. Classroom, 5915 Buhl

--4 p.m., Neuroscience Seminar. Kenneth Fischbeck, M.D., Chief, Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke, National Institutes of Health, "Polyglutamine Expansion Neurodegenerative Disease," Waggoner Conference Room 1057, MHRI

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

--9:30 a.m., Children's Health Services Research Seminar. PAS Platform Presentation Practice, 300 NIB, Room 6D15

--3 p.m., Human Genetics "Chalk Talk" Seminar. Danny Reinberg, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, "Chromatin and Its Impact on Gene Expression and Cellular Memory," HG Classroom, 5915 Buhl

--3:30 p.m., Functional Neuroimaging Speaker Series. Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Associate Professor, New York University, "The Human Amygdala and Episodic Memory," 4448 East Hall

Wednesday, April 16, 2003

--7 a.m., Educational Skills Workshop. Tricia Tang, Ph.D., "Teaching Sociocultural Medicine Practice," G23315 Towsley

--8:45 a.m., Anesthesiology Seminar. Patricio Peirano, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Head of Sleep and Functional Neurobiology Lab, INTA, University of Chile, "Sleep and Nutrition Throughout Human Development: The Iron Deficiency Model," UH 1H245

--10:30 a.m., Psychiatry Grand Rounds. David J. Knesper, M.D., "Suicide Risk Assessment Workshop," MCHC Auditorium

--11 a.m., Neurology Grand Rounds. Mark W. Mahowald, M.D., Director, Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, Hennepin County Medical Center, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School, "Parasomnias," 2C108 University Hospital

Thursday, April 17, 2003

--12 p.m., Vision Lunch Seminar. Alan D. Marmorstein, Ph.D., Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, “Light Responsive Ion Transport In the RPE: The Role Of Bestrophin,” W.K. Kellogg Eye Center

--12:10 p.m., Gifts of Art. The Chris Smith Quartet, Hospital Lobby, Floor 1

Friday, April 18, 2003

--11:45 a.m., Depression Center Colloquium Series. Steven D. Hollon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University. Also speaking will be Elizabeth Young, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, "Relationships Between Stress Hormone Abnormalities and Antidepressant Drug Response," Waggoner Conf. Room, MHRI. To register, please e-mail Nicole Stanbridge at stanbrid@umich.edu

--12 p.m., Cell and Developmental Biology Seminar. Masayuji Yamamoto, M.D., Professor, Center for Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance and Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan, "In Vivo function of Gata-1 and Gata-2: Transgenic Complementation Rescue Analysis of Transcription Facot Function," 5915 Buhl

--1 p.m., Transplant Grand Rounds. Hugh Auchincloss, Jr., M.D. Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Center for Islet Transplantation at Harvard Medical School Chief, Kidney Transplantation, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Surgical Director, Pancreas Transplantation, Massachusetts General Hospital, "Regulatory T Cells & Indirect Pathway," UH 1H205

 

 

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