Program News Archive
In the news Four MD/PhD students were among the honorees at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Minnesota Medical Foundation 2010 Honors and Awards Program, "Celebrating Excellence" on April 21: - Joan Beckman received the Schmit-Steer Award, which was established in 2001 by Randolph C. Steer, M.D., Ph.D, and Clifford J. Steer, M.D., professor of medicine and cell biology at the University of Minnesota. The award recognizes outstanding basic scientific research in biochemistry at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
- Christopher DeNucci and Michael Weinreich were among three students who received the J. Jacob Kaplan Award. This award, made possible by the late Dr. J. Jacob Kaplan and his family, recognizes the most meritorious student papers in either clinical or basic medical research.
- Christopher DeNucci, Kurt Prins, and Michael Weinreich were among six recipients of the Beatrice Z. Milne and Theodore Brandeburg Award. This research award recognizes exceptional thesis research by graduate students in the basic biomedical sciences.
- Kurt Prins and Michael Weinreich were among four recipients of the Marvin Bacaner Research Award in Basic Medical Sciences. This award, established by Dr. Marvin Bucaner, professor in physiology, recognizes excellence in creative basic science research.
Jeannette Zinggeler Berg was interviewed by Elsevier Publications about her study that found African Americans may experience higher nicotine levels per cigarette. The study was selected for a media briefing presentation December 7, 2007 at the American Association of Cancer Research's Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference in Philadelphia. Read more about her findings on the Cancer Center Web site. In the journals A first-author paper by MD/PhD student Kurt Prins was published in The Journal of Cell Biology on August 10, 2009. A figure from the paper was featured on the front cover. MD/PhD student Christopher Wilke is first author of a paper published in the August 2009 issue of Clinical Neurophysiology. An editorial discussing the paper is published in the same issue. A first-author paper by MD/PhD student Lisa Jasperson was published in the March 15, 2008 issue of Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. See commentary on her paper in the journal's "Inside Blood" section. On the Web The Masonic Cancer Center Web site features 2 MD/PhD students who are conducting research in cancer center labs. Read more.
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