2006-01-19
- James H. Morrissey, a biochemist, and colleagues at the University of Georgia have discovered that a linear polymer known as polyphosphate speeds blood clotting and helps clots last longer.
2006-01-17 - In work to appear this week on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website, Milan Bagchi, professor of molecular and integrative physiology showed that a specific transcription factor must be present in the uterus of mice in order for pregnancy to occur. "'This protein in the mouse is also in humans,' Bagchi said. 'We believe it plays a critical role in human pregnancy.'"
2006-01-11 - In a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, Joanna L. Shisler, assistant professor of microbiology, and other researchers report the finding of a protein that could lead to treatment for inflammatory responses such as occur in rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease.
2005-12-01 - Dr. Spies comes to Illinois following postdoctoral research at the University of California, Davis.
2005-11-10 - Dr. Chen recently completed his postdoctoral research at Gladstone Institute of Immunology and Virology, University of California, San Francisco.
2005-10-10 - Dave Kranz and colleagues won a $450,000 grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to study immunotherapies as a safe alternative to surgery for brain cancer.
2005-10-04 - Michael V. Lasker, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the U of I's College of Medicine in Urbana, and Satish Nair, department of biochemistry, used x-ray crystallography to determine the structure of mouse interleukin-1 receptor-associataed kinase-4 (IRAK-4).-
2005-06-01 - Dr. Martinis earned her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois and completed postdoctoral research at M.I.T.