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Charles Huddleston performs a pediatric lung transplant.A team of researchers at the School of Medicine has found that using lobes of lungs from living donors improves the chances of short-term survival for children who require a second lung transplant. Living-donor lung retransplantation involves removing a lower lobe, or about one-third of a lung, from each of two healthy adult donors and then transplanting the lobes as replacement lungs into a child.

The answer to a 50-year-old question has been found by scientists at the School of Medicine. The question: Is it possible to accurately measure the intrinsic filling function of the heart?

Researchers have found that two common organisms collude and collaborate to increase the amount of calories harvested from a class of carbohydrates found in food sweeteners. In the study, conducted in previously germ-free mice, colonization with two prominent human gut microbes led to fatter mice. Scientists at the School of Medicine called the results an illustration of how understanding the menagerie of microorganisms that live in our guts can provide new insights into health.

Anjan Thakor co-founded the Financial Intermediation Research Society to communicate & coordinate further research more efficiently.

Six are recently graduated seniors, and two are graduate students.

John Klein announced that Roloff will become vice chancellor for capital projects; Hoffner will become assistant vice chancellor for real estate.

“His value to the University has been well-reflected in his numerous honors and awards,” Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton says.

Graduate-student winners are Ryan Shirey and Benjamin Cawthra; undergraduate winners are Jennifer Feder and Wendy Xin.

Photo by David KilperNearly 100 researchers, students and faculty across disciplines attended the all-day Cardiac Bioelectricity & Arrhythmia Center retreat.

He assists colleagues outside of chemistry on a regular basis, and there are numerous accounts of him stepping in to take care of problems.