Viewpoint founders meet with legislators to promote biomedical startups
Viewpoint Molecular Targeting, LLC founders met with Iowa legislators at the National Council on Entrepreneurial Tech Transfer (NCET2) National Demo Day. The purpose was to educate them on the key role university based biomedical startups play in creating high value jobs and in improving national economic and social competitiveness.
Health Policy team receives CDC funding to study integration of oral health and primary care
The grant, called a Special Interests Project (SIP), is awarded by the Prevention Research Centers program office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Fred Boehmke receives NSF grant for U.S. policy diffusion database
The three-year, $202,820 grant will help to create a database that includes information on policy actions by all 50 state legislatures, administrative branches, and courts to track the spread of policies adopted throughout the United States.
Cwiertny to serve House Committee on Energy and Commerce
His appointment is a part of his role as a 2016–17 Congressional Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
The Q Brothers discuss the collaborative nature of creativity at first Creative Matters lecture
“Shakespeare was the hottest verse of his day, and we’re turning him into the hottest verse of our day,” said GQ, founder and creative director of The Q Brothers, at the first Creative Matters lecture on Sept. 20.
The lecture brought together The Q Brothers’ four-member ensemble and UI Emeritus Professor of English Miriam Gilbert for a lively conversation about collaborative creativity, how Shakespeare is possibly best understood today through the medium of hip hop, and how Julius Caesar just wanted to make Rome great again.
AAAS Communicating Science workshop give faculty tools for telling the story of science
Though research, universities solve many thorny problems in society. But sometimes getting the word out can be almost as thorny.
Rahmouni honored by International Society of Hypertension
Kamal Rahmouni, professor of pharmacology and internal medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, has been awarded the 2016 Paul Korner Award by the International Society of Hypertension (ISH).
Debate moves Clinton, Trump prices on Iowa Electronic Markets
Hillary Clinton’s contract prices are up 8 percent to 70.5 cents in volatile post-debate overnight trading on the Iowa Electronic Markets, while contract prices for Donald Trump are down 3 percent to 31.8 cents.
Making progress toward gene therapy for cystic fibrosis
Working with cystic fibrosis (CF) pigs, researchers based in the University of Iowa Pappajohn Biomedical Institute have shown that two different virus-based vectors can restore the function of a faulty protein involved with CF symptoms.