Third-year medical student Jeffrey Nepple recently received a $1,000 Medical Student Scholarship from the Southern Medical Association. The Birmingham, Ala.-based association is a physician membership association, founded and governed by physicians since 1906. …
Jeffery Matthews, drama coordinator in the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences, received a Kevin Kline Award March 20 for “Outstanding Production for Young Audiences,” for Bah Humbug! Matthews also was in the cast of West Side Story at the MUNY, which won five awards. …
Perry E. Bickel, M.D., assistant professor of medicine and of cell biology and physiology, received a three-year, $808,500 grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research titled “Trafficking of Triacylglycerol in Adipocytes.” …
Nam Soo Suh, M.D., resident physician in the Department of Pathology and Immunology at the School of Medicine, received a $2,500 seed grant from the American Medical Association Foundation for a project titled “Indolamine Dioxygenase Expression Levels and Relationship to Clinicopathological Features and Survival in Melanoma.” …
James L. Gibson, Ph.D., the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government in Arts & Sciences, has received a one-year, $109,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for research titled “Assessing the Consequences of Politicized Confirmation Processes on the Legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court: The Bush Appointments.” …
David C. Beebe, Ph.D., the Janet and Bernard Becker Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, has received a four-year, $2,195,961 grant from the National Eye Institute for research titled “Control by Oxygen of Lens Metabolism and Cataract Formation.” …
David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of Neurology, has received a one-year, $1,956,438 grant from USA Med Research ACQ Activity for research titled “Identification and Preclinical Evaluation of New Therapies for Brain Tumors.” …
C. Michael Crowder, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology, has received a four-year, $1,536,456 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Mutant Analysis of Genes Controlling Anesthetic Action.”