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| Richard L. Moss has served as the physiology department chair for more than two decades. He also is the founder and director of the Cardiovascular Research Center and co-founder and executive director of the Master of Science in Biotechnology Program. |
Richard L. Moss, PhD, the Robert Turell Professor of Physiology and chair of the physiology department, has been appointed senior associate dean for basic research, biotechnology and graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
Moss succeeds Paul DeLuca, PhD, who recently was named UW-Madison provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. The new SMPH associate dean position has been expanded to encompass biotechnology.
"My vision is to emphasize the translation of biotechnology research taking place in the School of Medicine and Public Health. These important advances promise to improve research and patient care and can have a profound impact on the economy of our state and region," Moss says. "We will build and improve working relationships with biotechnology and health care organizations across the country and internationally, highlighting the leading-edge research that is being done at the University of Wisconsin." Read More
A large clinical trial led by UW Health ophthalmologist Michael Ip, MD, identified the first long-term, effective treatment to improve vision and reduce vision loss associated with blockage of large veins in the eye.
The 84-site clinical trial should result in immediate changes in the way eye doctors treat the second most common cause of vision loss. Read More
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Robert Golden, MD, dean of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and Sanjay Asthana, MD, director of the new Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC), celebrate the ADRC opening and receipt of a $7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Aging on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Read More
A future in which damaged retinas could be repaired by cells grown from the patient's own skin grew closer this summer when scientists David Gamm, MD, PhD, and Jason Meyer, PhD, reported growing multiple types of retina cells from two types of stem cells. Read More
A new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison brain researcher Jack Nitschke, PhD, shows that the emotional centers in the brain respond much more strongly to disturbing photos if the subject didn't know what was coming. The study, published in Cerebral Cortex, shows much stronger neural responses to negative stimuli when the event is preceded by uncertainty. Read More
Success in cellular fusion — as occurs at the moment of conception and when nerve cells exchange neurotransmitters — requires that a membrane be bent before the merging process can begin, a team led by Edwin R. Chapman, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute professor in the physiology department showed in a paper published in Cell. Read More
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