All Entries Tagged With: "National Institutes of Health"
National Institutes of Health Honors Cecelia Valrie With an Award for Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Virginia Commonwealth University psychology professor Cecelia Valrie was honored by the National Institutes of Health’s HEAL Initiative for her collaborative research into improving pain management for pediatric patients with sickle cell disease.
Study Finds Women May Receive More Health Benefits From Exercise Than Men
“[Exercise] is an incredibly powerful way to live healthier and longer,” says Dr. Susan Cheng of the Smidt Heart Institute. “Women on average tend to exercise less than men and hopefully these findings inspire more women to add extra movement to their lives.”
Debra Tucci Named Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
Currently, Dr. Tucci is a professor of surgery and director of the cochlear implant program in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina. She has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1993, when she co-founded the Duke Hearing Center.
Women Nearly 40 Percent of New Members of National Academy of Medicine
A WIAReport analysis of the list of the 75 members of the latest cohort elected into the National Academy of Medicine finds that 29, or 39 percent, are women. Just two years ago, women were just 30 percent of the new members.
Jane Peterson Named CEO of Keystone Symposia
Keystone Symposia, a nonprofit educational organization is headquartered in Silverthorne, Colorado, convenes more than 50 open, peer-reviewed conferences across a broad range of the life sciences each year. Dr. Peterson has had a 30-year career at the National Institutes of Health.
Jennifer Doudna Wins the $100,000 Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences
Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology at the University of California at Berkeley, is being honored for her work on RNA by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.
In Memoriam: Bernadine Healy Loop (1944-2011)
A woman who was at the forefront of public health as head of the Ohio State University medical school, the National Institutes of Health, the American Red Cross, and the American Heart Association.
NIH Grant Will Allow Duke Professor to Study Risky Sexual Practices of Women in China
M. Giovanna Merli, associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, has been awarded a four-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the prevalence risky health behaviors and incidence of sexually transmitted disease among female sex workers in China. Merli and her research team will work […]
New Roles for Four Women
Michelle Garfield Cooke was named interim associate provost for institutional diversity at the University of Georgia. She has been serving as associate dean at the university’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. She also teaches history and African-American studies courses. Dr. Cooke is a graduate of Princeton University. She holds a master’s degree from Yale […]
