Tuesday, January 06, 2015 Stefan Strack, PhD, University of Iowa professor of pharmacology and pathology, recently received a $275,000 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS) and today (Monday, Dec. 1) was named a winner of GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) 2014 Discovery Fast Track Challenge, which is designed to encourage the translation of academic research into novel therapies.
Tuesday, January 06, 2015 Assistant Professor, Justin Grobe was selected to receive the 2015 New Investigator Award from the American Physiological Society’s Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section.
Tuesday, January 06, 2015 Researchers in Montréal led by Jacques Drouin, D.Sc., uncovered a mechanism regulating dopamine levels in the brain by working on a mouse model of late onset Parkinson's disease.
Monday, January 19, 2015 Dr. Mario Ascoli, Professor of Pharmacology, has played an important role in the teaching mission of the department for more than two decades.
Wednesday, February 04, 2015 Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the preferential, but poorly understood, vulnerability to degeneration of midbrain dopaminergic (mDA) neurons in the ventral substantia nigra compacta (vSNc).