Author: Ken Duenke

The University has received an $11.6 million grant to fund a Silvio O. Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders.

David H. Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., is having the time of his life. And despite his passion for jazz, this time there’s not a saxophone in sight. The source of Gutmann’s zeal is the School of Medicine’s newly formed interdisciplinary team unified by his scientific crusade: unraveling the mystery of brain tumors in children with neurofibromatosis […]

Rates of celiac disease are significantly higher in patients with osteoporosis, according to School of Medicine researchers.

The Record will not publish next week due to spring break. Look for our next issue March 18.

Photo by Robert BostonInvestigators Charles Hildebolt (right) and Dean Faulk hold a cast of the skull of the “Hobbit,” likely a new species of prehistoric humans.Medical school researchers performed a detailed comparison of the fossil’s brain case with those of other human ancestors. More medical news

Photo by Mary ButkusFrances H. Foster was installed as the Edward T. Foote II Professor of Law Feb. 17 in Anheuser-Busch Hall.

He was one of the first African-American physicians to join the School of Medicine and was a renowned health-care policy innovator.

The former clinical instructor in the School of Dentistry died of leukemia Feb. 20.

Photo by Robert BostonSecond-year medical student Shana Kusin admires a panel of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on display in the Bernard Becker Medical Library.

The wife of Professor Emeritus Burton Wheeler, she died Feb. 25.