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Wednesday Seminars -Guest speakers 12pm 202 LH
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MPB faculty Deborah Murdock (left), Kevin Niswender (center) and Aurelio Galli (right) have received prestigious NIH transformative R01 grants. Only 42 awards were made this year in this highly competitive national program. Deborah Murdock's grant entitled "Fatty acid signals as quorum sensing regulators of mitochondrial biogenesis" will examine the regulation of mitochondrial cell number in disease. Click here to read the coverage in the Reporter. Kevin Niswender and Aurelio Galli's collaborative grant entitled "Insulin Regulation of Monoamine Signaling" focuses on the interaction between insulin and dopamine signaling in the brain and how this relationship modulates feeding behavior. Click here to read the coverage in the Reporter.
An interview with former MPB chair Rollo Park is featured on the American Physiological Society website as part of their living history project. Click here to listen.
MPB adjunct faculty members Steve Davis M.D. (left) and Marshall Summar M.D. (right) are both leaving Vanderbilt to pursue new opportunities. Steve Davis, the current chief of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism and Professor in Medicine and MPB has accepted a position as the chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Click here to read the coverage in the Reporter. Marshall Summar, Professor in Pediatrics and MPB will be the new chief of Clinical Genetics and Metabolism at the Children’s National Medical Center, Washington D.C. and will hold the Margaret O'Malley Chair in Molecular Genetics Research. Both will assume their new positions early in 2010.
MPB received the "Partners In Health (PIH) Giving Nobel Award" for the basic science department with the highest level of participation in the 2009 PIH program. Click here to read the coverage in the Reporter.
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