Features
- New Combination of Drug Therapies Found to Significantly Lower Blood Pressure in Blacks; Dr. John Flack Presented Findings to the National Medical Association
- Posted: Thursday, August 7, 2008
African-Americans have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure, the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, than other ethnic groups according to the American Heart Association. A research study performed at Wayne State University has found a new combination of drugs, a calcium...
- IOG Director Elected President of APA Division on Aging
- Posted: Friday, June 27, 2008
Institute of Gerontology Director Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D., has been elected president of the American Psychological Associate Division on Adult Development and Aging for the 2009 - 2010 term. "I am honored and thrilled to have the opportunity to serve this division, the most longstanding and...
- Dr. Diane Chugani receives $5.7 million grant from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008
Dr. Diane Chugani, professor of Pediatrics and Radiology in the School of Medicine at WSU, was recently awarded a $5.79 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health for a study that may open doors to finding a treatment for...
- Kannan, Kannan and Iezzi developing nanodevices for use in diagnostics and therapy
- Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A team of researchers from WSU's College of Engineering, School of Medicine and the Kresge Eye Institute - Ligon Center, have been collaborating to discover and develop new nanodevices that will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of a number of neuroinflammatory diseases and infections that are...
- Xiaoming Li awarded $2.2 million from NIH
- Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The HIV/AIDS pandemic scene in East Asia is largely dominated by China. While AIDS is not yet considered an epidemic in China, the infection rate has risen sharply in recent years, and the potential impact of a serious outbreak would be disastrous for both China and the world's...
- Mateika receives $1.5 million from National Institutes of Health
- Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
WSU Associate Professor, Jason H. Mateika, Ph.D., of the Department of Physiology and Internal Medicine in the School of Medicine, was recently awarded $1.5 million from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health. His grant, "Impact of Intermittent Hypoxia...
- Sandra Jacobson discovers new way to identify children exposed prenatally to alcohol
- Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Researchers at WSU have discovered that lack of eyeblink response in eyeblink conditioning tests may help to identify children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol - fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) - according to results published in the February 2008 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical &...
- WSU Receives "Gold Standard" Accreditation in Protecting Human Research Subjects
- Posted: Friday, December 21, 2007
Following a rigorous, two and a half year evaluatian process, WSU's research program involving human participants has received full accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs Inc. (AAHRPP). In addition, the John D. Dingell VA Medical Center...
- WSU Physicists Confirm New Behavior in Anti-Matter
- Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Three physicists from WSU lead a team that confirmed evidence of a new matter-anti-matter oscillation behavior in a particle made from protons at the Fermi Accelerator laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, IL. "The implications of the newly observed behavior are still to be determined, but could...
- Dr. Roberto Romero elected to the Institute of Medicine
- Posted: Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Dr. Roberto Romero, chief of the Perinatology Research Branch (PRB) of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/National Institutes of Health, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Romero is also a professor of Molecular Obstetrics and Gynecology and Molecular...