Our fifth annual DOM Research Day will be held on Friday, June 1, 2012

Our Grand rounds speaker will be Robert M. Califf, MD, Vice Chancellor for Clinical Research, Director, Duke Translational Medicine Institute, Duke University Medical Center

And our keynote speaker will be Philip Greenland, MD, Sr. Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Research, Director, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Northwestern University

Please register in advance for planning purposes!

Contact Betty Weiss at baw@medicine.wisc.edu if you have questions.

To Rich Halberg, PhD for the funding of a Career Development Award from Fight Colorectal Cancer Coalition and the AACR.

To Barbara Bendlin, PhD, for the funding of her R01 grant titled: "White matter degeneration: biomarkers in preclinical Alzheimer's Disease".

To Sterling Johnson, PhD, for the funding of his R01 grant titled: "The Effect of Calorie Restriction on Brain Aging".

And to James Sosman, MD, for his HRSA grant titled: "Ryan White Part B HIV Care Services 2012-2015"

DOM Capital Exercise ("Cap Ex") is now open for 2012 (Letters have been sent out)!

The Cap Ex process is a mechanism by which the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) returns a portion of indirect costs on Federal Grants (mainly NIH) generated in the previous fiscal year ending June 30 to the departments for the purpose of buying capital equipment, computers or supporting other research needs.

For the full announcement and the application process, please go to the secure site.

To Nizar Jarjour, MD (Allergy/Pulmonary) for the funding of his U10 grant titled: "Stability of Severe Asthma Phenotypes: Impact of Exacerbations (SARP III)".

To Aji Djamali, MD, (Nephrology) on the funding of his new R01 titled: "The role of Nox2 in CNI-induced renal fibrosis".

To co-PI's Jim Stein, MD (CVM) and Michael Fiore, MD (CTRI) on their newly funded R01 titled: "A Comparative Effectiveness & Long-term Health Study in Wisconsin Smokers".

To Bruce Christiansen, PhD in CTRI received funding for an R21 titled: "Tobacco Interventions Delivered by Community Agencies to those Living in Poverty".

Our fourth annual DOM Research Day will be held on Friday, June 3, 2011

Gary B. Huffnagle, PhD, Departments of Internal Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology, University of Michigan, will be our keynote plenary speaker.

Please register for Research Day using this link.

Please go to the Research Day webpage for more details.