The University of Utah is the school in this state most often ranked by U.S.News & World Report in its 2005 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools, which hits newsstands Monday. The U of U is ranked in 23 separate categories. The next most frequently mentioned school appears in 7 ranking categories.
Read MoreA human gene named ATR normally protects people by preventing the replication of cells damaged by radiation or toxic chemicals. Now, Utah and New York researchers have discovered how a gene in the AIDS virus hijacks the human gene and turns it into a weapon that prevents reproduction of immune-system white blood cells, leaving AIDS patients vulnerable to deadly infections and cancer.
Read MoreEver since she can remember, Judy Vu has dreamed of becoming a doctor. Her parents, Vietnamese immigrants who met in the U.S., have done everything they can to support her goal. When she was a child, her father brought home documentaries of Operation Smile and Judy watched them all, hoping to someday travel to other countries and help those in need.
Read MoreA pioneering model that a University of Utah cardiologist proposes as a cause of heart disease is the kind of creative thinking the National Institutes of Health (NIH) likes to see-and reward with one of its most prestigious honors, a $2.5 million 2009 Pioneer Award.
Read MoreThe University of Utah Alumni Association will celebrate Founders Day, which commemorates the founding of the University of Utah in 1850, on Tuesday, February 24, at 6 p.m., at the Little America Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. Honoring alumni who have distinguished themselves professionally and individually, the event will acknowledge Richard E. Kendell, William J. Rutter, Beverley Taylor Sorenson, Andrew A. Valdez; as well as an honorary alumni couple-Chase N. and Grethe Ballif Peterson. In addition, special guests Coach Kyle Whittingham and the 2008 University of Utah Football Team will be recognized with the Distinguished Achievement Award for their phenomenal success during the 2008 football season, capped by a stunning victory over fourth-ranked Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl on January 2.
Read MoreTwenty-three University of Utah students who completed 400 hours of community service each will be honored at the U’s commencement ceremonies on May 2, at 9 a.m., in the Jon M. Huntsman Center.
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Lecturer: Lucy Shapiro, professor of developmental biology, Stanford University
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building Auditorium, University of Utah
Antibiotics, widely used since the 1950s, now are often ineffective because bacteria have many ways of acquiring and sharing resistance to the medications. Development of new antibiotics cannot keep pace in this biological arms race. “Furthermore, there is an increase in prevalent infectious diseases around the world due to overpopulation, globalization and urbanization, says Lucy Shapiro, professor of developmental biology at Stanford University. “This results in a lethal combination of emerging diseases and loss of effective antibiotics. We are rapidly reaching a critical stage.”
It’s a case of miscommunication with catastrophic consequences. Two human blood cells that help fight blood loss, infection, and inflammation are responsible as well for starting a series of molecular events that results in overproduction of Cox-2, an enzyme involved in heart attack, stroke, atherosclerosis, and other inflammatory diseases.
Read MoreOne of the world’s leading neurologists in Alzheimer’s disease imaging and treatment has joined the University of Utah to establish the Intermountain West’s first academic Alzheimer’s clinic and to become an investigator with the University’s new Brain Institute.
Read MoreThe Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced today the
selection of its new HHMI investigators, which are, according to HHMI’s news release, “the nation’s most promising biomedical scientists.” Among these prestigious scientists are two University of Utah researchers – Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy, and Erik M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., professor of biology. (See HHMI release www.hhmi.org for a list of all investigator appointments, bios and photos.)