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.
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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.
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Joseph Szot, MD, has been named associate dean for continuing and integrated medical education in the UI Carver College of Medicine.
Kevin Campbell, PhD, and Michael Welsh, MD, will continue to serve as Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators for another five years following renewal of their appointments by HHMI.