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July' 07 The GCNS relocated administratively to the College of Medicine (COM) where it continues to act as a multidisciplinary unit in graduate education and research. To coordinate graduate education with the COM, the GCNS joined the Integrative Biomedical Sciences (IBS) Program and will also continue to admit students directly into the Nutritional Sciences, allowing us to maintain a multidisciplinary education focus, and to serve the educational needs of faculty in nutrition-related units outside of Medicine, such as Agriculture, Health Sciences, Pharmacy and Nursing.
October '06 Manisha Gupte, M.S., a graduate student working with Dr.Lisa Cassis in theGraduate Center for Nutritional Sciences, was the first place winner in the student category of the Gill Heart Institute Poster Session for 2006. Manisha presented results from research demonstrating novel expression of the ACE2 enzyme in adipose tissue, and regulation of the enzyme in mice with diet-induced obesity.
September '06 Dr.Bernhard Hennig has received the 2006 Helen LeBaron Hilton Award from Iowa State University for Outstanding Leadership and Distinguished Achievements. He made two invited talks entitled: "Impact of nutrition on PCB toxicity" at the Fourth PCB Workshop,Zakopane, Poland and “Nutritional Modulation of Environmental Toxicity: Implications in Atherosclerosis” at Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Barcelona, Spain.
September '06 Dr.Howard Glauert presented the invited talk "Role of Oxidative Stress in the
Promoting Activities of PCBs" at the Fourth PCB Workshop, Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects of PCBs, Zakopane, Poland.
August '06 Dr.David Hildebrand presented the invited talk entitled “Oxylipin Production in Soybeans” at the 2006 Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Soybean at Lincoln, NE.
July '06 GCNS Ph.D. student, Shetty Shoba, has been awarded a two year American Heart Association pre-doctoral fellowship.
July '06 Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences doctoral student Lei Wang, featured on NIEHS/NIH website. Link
04.10.06 Three faculty of Nutritional Sciences awarded a Program Project Grant from the NIHHeart Lung and Blood Institute entitled "Mechanisms of abdominal aortic aneurysm formation".
11.07.05 Nutritional Sciences rated within the top 10 graduate programs at UK based on graduate student publications, presentations and projects.
07.01.05 Nutritional Sciences receives funding from the USDA (Nutrition and Chronic Disease) and the NIH (Nutrition and Oxidative Stress) to support doctoral student training. LINK
07.01.05 USDA Predoctoral Training Grant in Obesity and Related Diseases (cardiovasculardisease, diabetes, cancer) funded to provide three predoctoral stipends for a three-year period. LINK
06.01.05 NIH T32 Predoctoral Training Grant in Nutrition and Oxidative Stress is renewed to provide three predoctoral stipends for five years of funding. LINK
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