The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is pleased to offer a new faculty program aimed to reenergize and increase the scholarly productivity of tenured faculty at WSU whose productivity has declined from previous peaks.

more »

Dr. Jeffrey Loeb to Lead the Creation of a Commercialization Center within Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics; Dr. Richard Beltramini to Expand Innovative Student-Run Advertising Agency at TechTown.

more »

African-Americans have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure, the leading risk factor for cardiovascular disease, than other ethnic groups according to the American Heart Association. A research study performed at Wayne State University has found a new combination of drugs, a calcium blocker and an Angiotensin II Receptor blocker (ARB), to have the most significant drop in blood pressure in the first large-scale clinical trial in blacks.

more »

A household solvent commonly abused by adolescents in “glue sniffing” may be more dangerous than previously thought, according to a study by a Wayne State University researcher featured in the current issue of NIDA Notes, a monthly publication of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

more »

Dr. Csaba Juhasz, assistant professor of pediatrics and neurology at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, recently received a $1.5 million award from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health for a new imaging technique that poses a potentially faster and more accurate method of brain tumor detection.

more »

Wayne State’s Center for Peace and Conflict Studies is hosting the Student Leaders Program, funded by a $278,000 grant from U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). One of six universities chosen for their exceptionally diverse communities and dedication to intercultural education, WSU will provide the venue for 18 of the total 116 international participants.

more »

Zhe Yang, Ph.D., assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine, has been awarded a four-year Scientist Development Grant from the National American Heart Association to further his research of an enzyme that could lead to new treatments to combat arrhythmia and cardiac failure.

more »

On September 10, 2008, the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences will host its 5th annual Research Forum, Gordon Research Conferences: Paving the Frontiers of Science. The program will begin at 11:00 a.m. at 259 Mack in the lower level auditorium with keynote speaker, Dr. Nancy Ryan Gray, director of the Gordon Research Conferences, West Kingston, RI. The event will conclude with poster presentations from 1 to 3 p.m. The event is free and open to all WSU faculty, students and staff.

more »

Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and the Office of the Vice President for Research are co-hosting an opportunity for National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant proposal review on September 11-12, 2008 for full-time WSU faculty. SOM and OVPR are pleased to bring Dr. Martin Padarathsingh to WSU’s campus to provide a seminar on NIH’s grant preparation and review process.

more »

Science Magazine has published an article by Timothy L. Stemmler, Ph.D., associate professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine.

more »