Dr. Elias Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health, has joined the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. (Read the rest of the announcement.)
Dr. Zerhouni spoke at Mayo’s commencement a few years ago and told the story of how his radiologist uncle urged him to apply to only two American institutions for residency training [...]
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded a rare MERIT award to Ed Leof, Ph.D., an investigator in Mayo’s Thoracic Diseases Research Unit. The federally-funded MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award provides “long-term stable support to investigators whose research competence and productivity are distinctly superior and who are likely to [...]
Mayo Clinic and the State of Minnesota collaborated to present two days of speakers at BIO 2009, the international biotechnology conference held in Atlanta. Presenting in the Mayo Clinic Theater at the Minnesota pavilion: Eric Wieben, Ph.D., (Mayo and the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics); Drew Flaata (IBM); Chancellor Steven Lehmkuhle (University of [...]
Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., head of Mayo’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, is featured in an HBO-produced feature on Mild Cognitive Impairment. Dr. Petersen, a national expert in dementias, is focused on finding ways to make the earliest possible diagnoses for MCI. Dr. Petersen diagnosed President Ronald Reagan’s Alzheimer’s disease. Here’s a sampling:
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Mayo neuroscience researchers, Todd Golde, M.D. and Thomas Kukar, Ph.D., are authors of a Perspective article in Science this month. The review piece – “Avoiding Unintended Toxicity” – examines drugs that inhibit one type of y-secretase, a protease that may help in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Interest has increased in these drugs because they [...]
The first medical center in the nation to develop a blood bank is now working to find ways to conserve blood. In an ironic twist, Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that blood transfusions are best used sparingly.
“Although blood transfusions can save lives, they can cause complications like lung injury, bacterial infections, and even death if [...]
