|
Upcoming
Events |
 |
Topic: "Early
Patterning of the Eye and Retinal Ganglion Cell
Development: A Human Genetics Perspective"
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Speaker:
Tom Glaser, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Internal
Medicine and Human Genetics |
|
|
|
See More... |
|
|
Message
from Dr. Schaller |
|
|
|
Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry in the
West Virginia University School of Medicine. This is a
very exciting time in the Department as we are in the
midst of a period of growth. Within the last year, three
new faculty members have joined the Department. We
continue to recruit for a number of new faculty
positions and are interested in candidates with
expertise in biochemistry and research interests in a
number of broad areas including cancer biology,
cardiovascular biology and neuroscience. These represent
areas of interest of the current faculty in the
department and areas of strength in the three major
research centers supported by the Health Sciences Center
at WVU. Two of our junior faculty members were awarded
their first NIH grants within the last six months. The
success of our faculty at securing extramural funding
and the recruitment of new faculty are re-invigorating
the research programs within the Department and have
provided new opportunities for post-doctoral and
graduate student training.
(See More...) |
|
|
WVU researcher wins
$1.6 million grant |
|
|
|
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The National Institutes of Health
has awarded a West Virginia University researcher $1.6
million over five years to study a protein that may be
essential to sight.
Maxim Sokolov, Ph.D., a faculty member in the WVU
Departments of Ophthalmology and Biochemistry, is
studying the role of proteins scientists call “molecular
chaperones” that help newly synthesized proteins mature
properly. As in all the body’s cells, molecular
chaperones function in the eye’s photoreceptors –
photosensitive cells in the retina that are essential to
sight – in ways that are not well understood. (See More...) |
|
