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Salud America! awarded $1.3 million for building research, education to fuel policy changes that reduce Latino childhood obesity

February 9, 2015

…to develop new evidence and educational content to drive healthy policy changes for the health of Latino children. The network also will enhance its award-winning Salud America! Growing Healthy Change…

Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. and Helen C. Kleberg Foundation provides $2 million for study of cellular events that precede Alzheimer’s

February 4, 2015

…of Alzheimer’s disease may include less norepinephrine release, and fewer norepinephrine-dependent calcium spikes in cells called astrocytes. While astrocytes are the major support cells for neurons, in Alzheimer’s this relationship…

Anti-epilepsy drug preserves brain function after stroke

February 4, 2015

…Shapiro said. “It’s treating the first step in the sequence and stopping the more damaging secondary effects,” Dr. Bierbower said. “These agents directly affect the nerve cells themselves.” Because retigabine…

Griffith studies link between aging, autoimmune disease

February 3, 2015

…one of the primary mechanisms for inducing self-tolerance in the thymus deteriorates with age. The lab is studying the possibility that T cells with potentially self-reactive T cell receptors accumulate…

Lodge gains early career award from U.S. pharmacology society

January 22, 2015

…award this year from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET). Dr. Lodge, who discovered that transplanting stem cells into the rat brain restored functions that are abnormal…

Cytogenetics Laboratory certified to offer first FDA-approved microarray testing

January 16, 2015

…to achieve this certification. In addition, the CytoScan® Dx Assay is the first microarray testing to gain FDA approval. “The sooner you identify the underlying cause of these children’s medical…