An international research team that includes a University of Iowa investigator has successfully identified two areas of the human genome associated with a childhood disorder that leads to a premature closure of the bony plates of the skull. The study is published online in the journal Nature Genetics.

Nancy Andreasen, M.D., Ph.D., University of Iowa professor of psychiatry, who holds the Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry, has received the 2012 National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Scientific Research Award, honoring her contributions to the understanding of schizophrenia.

Tara Smith of the UI College of Public Health is quoted in a story on research examining pigs as possible carriers of the deadly Ebola virus. Smith, who was not involved in the study, is an expert on emerging infectious diseases.

A University of Iowa study says men are less likely to be seen as depressed—even when they are. James B. Potash, MD, study editor and UI professor of psychiatry, says there has been relatively little focus on education and depression in men.

A new study published Nov. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that patients who have a cardiac arrest in the hospital today are more likely to survive and to avoid neurological disability than they were 10 years ago.

Thomas Wassink, UI professor of psychiatry and co-director of the UI Children's Hospital Autism Center, discusses new findings about illness in pregnancy and autism and explains progress being made in understanding the genetics of autism.

UI researchers and clinicians talk about advances for treating age-related macular degeneration.

To raise money for cancer charities, University of Iowa alumnus Steve Cannon ran 40 marathons in 40 consecutive days around Lake Michigan.

Read how heart attack survivor Brad Smith of Coralville and many other patients enroll in CHAMPS (Cardiovascular Health, Assessment, Management, and Prevention Service) through the UI Heart and Vascular Center to improve their heart health and prevent future problems.

Leaders of Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa have named three researchers as recipients of the second round of the 2012 American Cancer Society seed grant awards.

A University of Iowa team of more than 30 researchers from five different colleges has been named a finalist and awarded $5,000 in a competition that challenged international research teams to provide the best interpretation and communication of DNA sequencing results for three children with rare, undiagnosed genetic diseases.

Adam Dupuy is one of 57 researchers in the United States to receive a "Provocative Questions" grant from the National Cancer Institute. He will use the funding to develop new tools to help identify genes that lead to cancer.