Author: Ken Duenke

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day April 24 brought more than 100 8- to 12-year-old children to the University.

Picturing our Past

Christine Yeh updates Brian K. Dieckgraefe on her research project.Funded by a consortium of pharmaceutical firms, 11 medical school residents have received grants to conduct basic and clinical research.

William A. Peck will present the State of the School of Medicine Address May 6 and May 14.

The University was one of the key participants in the research that led to FDA approval of a drug-coated stent to treat patients with clogged cardiac arteries.

“These findings reveal an important new detail about the molecular mechanism Toxoplasma uses to penetrate cells,” says study leader L. David Sibley.

Jennings High School students enjoy lunch April 25 in Rebstock Hall during a DNA Science Days field trip.

He died at his home from complications of Shy Drager disease Saturday, April 26, 2003.

Researchers at the Genome Sequencing Center in the School of Medicine sequenced the virus in what is possibly record time — less than a week.

While most of the world works to contain the spread of the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Genome Sequencing Center (GSC) in the School of Medicine has become part of the international effort to understand the microbe. Researchers at the GSC were called upon to sequence the new virus and poorly understood human pathogen. They completed the task in what is possibly record time — less than a week.