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Medical student Kenten Kingsbury’s time as a volunteer throughout University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics confirmed his passion for medicine and goal of pursuing medical school.
Two early-career University of Iowa scientists have each been awarded a one-year, $30,000 American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant through Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Faculty members from the University of Iowa’s College of Engineering and the Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have been named IEEE Fellows, the highest grade of IEEE membership recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
Get to know current graduate student Mackenzie Spicer.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named University of Iowa cystic fibrosis and gene therapy researcher John Engelhardt, PhD, a 2019 Fellow.
Peg Nopoulos, MD, chair of psychiatry and professor of psychiatry, neurology, and pediatrics in the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $18 million grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to continue and expand a decade-long study on brain development in children at risk for developing Huntington’s Disease (HD).
Using a new approach, researchers at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Belgium, are investigating a poorly understood mechanism used by the immune system to fight infections.
University of Iowa professor Gail Bishop has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general-scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Yutaka Sato, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiology and director of the department’s Division of Pediatric Radiology, and Richard Shields, PT, PhD, professor, chair, and departmental executive officer of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science, received endowed professorships on Friday, Nov. 22.
Third-year medical student Claire Castaneda shares her experience with writing and uses is at a creative outlet in medical school.