Two researchers in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine have been renewed for another five years as investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Both researchers, Kevin Campbell, Ph.D., and Michael Welsh, M.D., have been HHMI investigators since 1989.
Yi Xing, Ph.D., a computational biologist with appointments in both the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the UI College of Engineering, has received a junior faculty award from the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation. The one-year $60,000 grant was effective Oct. 1, and Xing is eligible for two additional years of funding.
Mallinckrodt grants support highly promising young investigators. The foundation is particularly interested in funding basic research that has the potential to impact disease.
Adam Dupuy, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology, received a two-year, $50,000 award to study, at the genetic level, how the immune system detects and eliminates some tumors but cannot control the growth of other tumors.
Curt D. Sigmund, Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics, received the 2009 Novartis Award for Hypertension Research. The American Heart Association's Council for High Blood Pressure Research sponsors the award.
The award is the highest honor in hypertension research given annually by the association and Novartis. It recognizes outstanding researchers whose investigations have improved treatment and increased understanding of high blood pressure.
A four-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Eye Institute at the National Institutes of Health will help University of Iowa researchers study the cellular events that cause vision loss in glaucoma. The award was effective Aug. 1.
Led by Markus Kuehn, Ph.D., UI assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences, the team will investigate the degeneration of retinal ganglion cells. The death of these cells leads to vision loss, but what initiates and specifically causes their death is not known.
University of Iowa faculty member Chris Adams, M.D., Ph.D., has received a three-year $405,000 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The award was effective Aug. 1.
