In a meeting with state business and education leaders today, Friday, Feb. 13, University of Iowa President Sally Mason outlined steps the UI is taking to accelerate the transfer of biomedical research into the marketplace.

Linda Snetselaar’s research and scholarship is relevant to everyone’s way of life—after all, we all eat. Snetselaar, UI professor of epidemiology and associate provost of outreach and engagement, will deliver the 32nd annual UI Presidential Lecture, “Food, Culture, and Community,” Feb. 22.

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A University of Iowa study in mice shows that disrupting one protein can simultaneously curb alcohol cravings and protect the heart and liver from alcohol-induced damage. The findings suggest that the RGS6 protein may be a useful drug target both for treating alcoholism and reducing the organ damage caused by chronic alcohol consumption.

University of Iowa researcher Budd Tucker has been awarded one of three Research to Prevent Blindness/International Retinal Research Foundation Catalyst Awards for Stem Cell Research Approaches for Age-Related Macular Degeneration.The four-year award of up to $250,000 is designed to help fund high-risk/high-gain vision research by scientists who are working on cutting-edge approaches to age...

University of Iowa Dance Marathon had another record-breaking year, raising $2,001,856.21. Over the past 21 years, the UI's largest student-run organization has raised $16,541,049.65 for patients treated at UI Children's Hospital.

Floyd R. and Judith E. Domer, of Asheville, North Carolina, have established a $1 million bequest for the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy that will enhance an existing scholarship fund and create a new lectureship fund.

A short video, produced by University of Iowa Student Video Productions, highlights some of the UI Dance Marathon 21's best moments.

The Iowa Board of Regents has approved a University of Iowa Health Care request to purchase property for a new patient care facility in the Iowa River Landing development in Coralville.

Iowa City Heart Center, P.C., a highly regarded cardiology group serving eastern Iowa patients and families since 1987, will join University of Iowa Health Care, effective April 30.

UI Children's Hospital has a nationally acclaimed team of doctors and nurses who treat children with arrhythmias, host an annual conference for these patients and their families, and are leading participants in studies. Amanda Kurovski of Des Moines is one such young person who has benefited. She has an implantable cardioverter defibrillator to manage an arrhythmia, diagnosed when she was 15.

The Iowa Board of Regents has selected Jean E. Robillard, M.D., vice president for medical affairs at the University of Iowa, to chair the Presidential Search and Screen Committee in response to the recent retirement announcement from UI President Sally Mason.