Nathan A. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a five-month, $70,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “APBS: Nanoscale Biomolecular Electrostatics Software.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Jonathan Breshears, a student at the School of Medicine and a Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow, attended the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Investigator Student Trainee Forum in Bethesda, Md., Nov. 4-6. Bimal Chaudhari, Lucas McDuffie, Shuddhadeb Ray and Michael Scalfani, all Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellows doing research at the School of Medicine, also attended. …
Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences, has received a two-year, $35,000 subaward from the Missouri Botanical Garden for research titled “Missouri Botanical Garden Deer Creek Watershed Initiative.” …
The Internal Medicine Interest Group at the School of Medicine honored three faculty who volunteer at the Community Health in Partnership Services, a free clinic on North Grand Avenue. The Nov. 7 event gave special recognition to Jonathan Green, M.D., associate professor of medicine and assistant professor of pathology and immunology. In addition, the group recognized Sarah Keller, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Nathaniel Murdock, M.D., associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology. The Internal Medicine Interest Group collaborates with the clinic’s physicians to hold community health screenings at health fairs and churches throughout St. Louis, and its members shadow physicians at the clinic. …
Kathleen Hall, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a 20-month, $241,056 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “Assembly and Stability of Supramolecular PTB: Exon Complexes.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Dong Qin, Ph.D., research associate professor of energy, environmental and chemical engineering, has received a one-year, $390,000 subaward from Cornell University for research titled “National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN)-CAP Equipment ONLY.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
D.C. Rao, Ph.D., professor of biostatistics, has received a two-year, $303,463 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for research titled “Exploring a New Direction to Gene Discovery for Hypertension in the Large FBPP.” This grant is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. …
Erica Townsend, residential college director for Lee/Beaumont Residential College, recently was presented with the New Professional Rising Star award from the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, Region IV-West. …
Sandra G. Williams, an M.D./Ph.D. student in biochemistry and molecular biophysics, has received a two-year, $54,634 National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship Award to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research titled “The Contribution of Protein Conformational Instability to RNA Binding.” …
Younan Xia, Ph.D., the James M. McKelvey Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has received a three-year, $228,000 subaward from the University of Washington for research titled “Digital Luminescent Particle Image Barometry, Thermometry and Velocimetry.”
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Michael Sherraden, Ph.D., the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development, Yunju Nam, Ph.D., assistant professor of social work, and Jin Huang, graduate student in social work, spoke at the annual Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management research conference in November in Washington, D.C.