The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD) has awarded a four-year, $1.6 million total costs grant to establish a Center for Reproductive Sciences. The center will be one of 12 such centers in the United States. Paul Terranova, PhD, professor of physiology and obstetrics and gynecology, will direct the center. The purpose of the grant is to enhance existing research related to fertility and infertility at the Medical Center. Currently, Medical Center investigators hold 22 NIH grants related to the center's mission. In addition, the NICHHD has awarded a five-year, $457,908, direct costs, postdoctoral training grant to S.K. Dey, PhD, professor of physiology. The training grant is the only such grant for reproductive sciences in the four-state area surrounding Kansas. The center grant establishes specialized laboratories at KU Medical Center: cell and tissue culture, Joan Hunt, PhD, professor of anatomy and cell biology, director, and Katherine Roby, PhD, research assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology, associate director; cell imaging and photography, Joseph Tash, PhD, associate professor of physiology, and George Enders, PhD, assistant professor of anatomy and cell biology, co-directors; new program development, Gilbert Greenwald, PhD, professor of physiology, director; transgenics, Dey, director, and B.C. Paria, PhD, research assistant professor of physiology, associate director; administrative office, Terranova, director, and Greenwald, associate director. Other members of the center are: William Kinsey, PhD, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology; Glen Andrews, PhD, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology; Donald Johnson, PhD, and Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, assistant professor, both in obstetrics and gynecology; Lydia Arbogast, PhD, research assistant professor, Sanjoy Das, PhD, research assistant professor, Michael Soares, PhD, professor, James Voogt, PhD, professor, and Michael Wolfe, PhD, assistant professor, all in physiology; and Girish Shah, PhD, associate professor, surgery.
Dwayne Ollerich, PhD, associate dean of student affairs, has been elected chair elect of the Central Group on Student Affairs, which is comprised of 32 medical schools in the central region of the United States. Representation from each school includes admissions, student affairs, minority affairs and financial aid. Ollerich, who was elected at the organization's spring meeting in San Antonio, will be responsible for organizing the group's spring meeting next year. The following year, the chair elect becomes chair of the steering committee of the CGSA and represents the group on the national steering committee. The third year is known as the chair emeritus year, when Ollerich will serve as a member of the steering committee only.
Winston Mebust, MD, Valk professor and chair of urology, was elected treasurer of the American Urological Association during the organization's annual meeting May 2-9 in Orlando, Fla. He will serve a five-year term, which will lead to the presidency of the American Urological Association.
Karl Rozman, PhD, professor of pharmacology, toxicology and therapeutics, will present "What Happened to Dose-Response in Cancer Risk Assessment?" at the Sept. 4-7 Environmental Medical Conference in Aspen, Colo.
Students from Butler County who want to study at the KU School of Nursing can benefit from a new scholarship fund established with $142,000 from the estate of a long-time public health nurse. The late Grace B. Hull of Santa Fe, N.M., created the John F. and Ella M. Hull Scholarship Fund at the KU Endowment Association. Named in honor of Grace Hull's parents, the fund will assist nursing students who are graduates of Butler County high schools. Grace Hull was born July 9, 1901, in El Dorado and grew up in nearby Rosalia. After her graduation from El Dorado High School in 1919, she trained as a nurse at Kansas City General Hospital. After many years as a nurse in Kansas City, Los Angeles and Wichita, she completed a degree in public health nursing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1941. Later, she worked as a public health nurse in Santa Fe, N.M.
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