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Volunteers
needed for Cancer Survivors' Day celebration
The U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center needs volunteers to help during
the annual Cancer
Survivors' Day Celebration - Striking a Balance - on Sunday,
June 10, at the Morris Lawrence Building, Washtenaw Community College.
The event runs from 1 - 3:30 p.m. and people are needed to help
with setting up, staffing booths, serving refreshments, greeting
guests and cleaning up. Please contact Maxine Solvay at 7-1663 or
msolvay@umich.edu for more
information.
The
Charles A. Dana Foundation
Requests for proposals for the first cycle of the Clinical Hypotheses
in Immuno-Imaging Program. Imaging research supported under this
program should contribute to knowledge about how the body responds
to infections and about mechanisms of immunologically mediated diseases.
Grants totaling up to $100,000 for up to three years will be awarded
to successful applicants. To be considered for funding, investigations
must be in humans and of human disorders. Deadline to the Medical
School Grants Office is June 19, 2001. For information on applying,
contact Denise Swayze at 3-4086 or e-mail at dswayze@umich.edu.
For more information, see the Foundations website at: http://www.dana.org/grants/health/proposals/immuno.cfm
Reception
honoring Anne Ferris of FGP and Ambulatory Care 6/14/01
A reception honoring
Anne Ferris, Executive Administrator for the Faculty Group Practice
and Ambulatory Care Services, will retire on June 22, 2001. Friends
and colleagues are invited to a reception honoring Anne on Thursday,
June 14, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the Towsley Lobby. Presentations will
be at approximately 4:00 p.m. Please join us to help Anne celebrate
her 24 years at the University of Michigan and to wish her a happy
retirement.
Bioinformatics
Pilot Grant Awarded
The University of Michigan Program
in Bioinformatics announced the availability of funds to support
collaborative research in bioinformatics. Awards of up to $75,000
will be made for a period of one year. The following proposals were
selected for funding:
Dr. Sally Camper, Department
of Human Genetics and Dr. Robert Lyons, Departments of Biochemistry
and Biomedical Research Core Facilities, "Identification of Transcriptional
Regulatory Elements by Cross-Species DNA Sequence Comparison"
Dr. Arul Chinnaiyan,
Department of Pathology, Dr. Debashis Ghosh, Department of Biostatistics,
Dr. Mark Rubin, Departments of Pathology and Urology, "A Bioinformatics
Approach to Cancer Profiling"
Dr. Eva Feldman, Department
of Neurology, Dr. Kelli Sullivan, Department of Neurology, Dr. Toby
Teorey, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Dr. Debashis Ghosh, Department of Biostatistics, "The Center for
the Study of Complications in Diabetes Bioinformatics Program"
Dr. Richard Goldstein,
Department of Chemistry and the Biophysics Research Division and
Dr. Richard Neubig, Department of Pharmacology, "Using Evolution
to Understand G-Protein Coupled Receptors"
Dr. David Lubman, Department
of Chemistry, Dr. Kathleen Cho, Department of Pathology, Dr. Donald
Schwartz, Department of Pathology, Dr. Kerby Shedden, Department
of Statistics, "Screening for Protein Markers in Ovarian Carcinoma
Using a Liquid Separation/Mass Mapping Method"
Dr. Richard Miller, Department
of Pathology, Dr. Jeffrey Halter, Department of Medicine, Division
of Geriatrics, Dr. George Kaplan, Department of Epidemiology and
Dr. James House, Department of Sociology and the Survey Research
Center "Aging, Stress and Gene Expression"
Honors,
Awards & Achievements
James R. Baker, Jr., M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine, Division
Chief of Allergy, is the recipient of the Ruth Dow-Doan Endowed
Professorship for the Center for Biologic Nanotechnology. The inauguration
ceremony will take place Monday, June 11, 2001, at 4:00 p.m., Ford
Amphitheater.
Alice Telesnitsky, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, was voted Teacher
of the Month by the Class of 2004 for her excellence in teaching
for March 2001.
Arno Kumagai, M.D.,
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology,
was voted Teacher of the Month by the Class of 2003 for his excellence
in teaching for March 2001.
News
releases and Health Minute
- Procedure
improves quality of life for chronic heartburn sufferers
- U-M
Health System named tops in recycling among state's public institutions
- Study
offers hope for reflux disease patients who can't live without chocolate
This
week's Health Minute: Easily accessible, potentially fatal for young
teens
Seminars,
Lectures, Colloquia for next week
To access the entire UMHS events database, see: http://www.academic.med.umich.edu/LassoPages/ProStaffEvents.lasso
W
e d n e s d a y, M a y 30, 2001
--10:00 a.m. Biological Chemistry Special Seminar.
Dr. Stephen Sligar, Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Beckman
Institute, University of Illinois, "SUPRAMOLECULAR ARCHITECTURES
IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE: VISUALIZING AND MANIPULATING THE STRUCTURE
OF SINGLE MEMBRANE PROTEINS AND THEIR FUNCTIONAL COMPLEXES" Abel
Lecture Hall (5330 Med Sci I).
--10:30 a.m. Psychiatry
Grand Rounds. Herbert Pardes, M.D., President and CEO,
New York Presbyterian Hospital & Healthcare System, Professor of
Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry at Columbia and Cornell University,
"PSYCHIATRY'S PROSPECTS IN A CHALLENGED ACADEMIC MEDICAL WORLD"
MCHC Auditorium.
T
h u r s d a y, M a y 31, 2001
--8:00 a.m. OBGYN
Grand Rounds.
Stuart Wolf, M.D., "ASYMPTOMATIC MICROSCOPIC HEMATURIA IN ADULTS",
MCHC Auditorium
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