Author Archives: Matt Sluzinski

Mayo Adds New Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology

October 1, 2009 – 4:35 pm

Mayo Clinic’s well-regarded clinical program in digestive disorders now has a new partner — the Mayo Clinic Center for Cell Signaling in Gastroenterology (MCCCSG). Nicholas LaRusso, M.D., an internationally-recognized clinician-investigator in gastroenterology, will serve as director.
Supported by a five-year, $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the MCCCSG launched in [...]

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Grant Renewed for Mayo Clinic Cancer Center

June 23, 2009 – 2:36 pm

Five more years.
That was the message from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently when it re-designated the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (MCCC) a “comprehensive cancer center” and awarded it another five years of funding. This is the seventh consecutive five-year award for the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, which has been continuously funded by the NCI [...]

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Training Next-Generation Researchers

June 2, 2009 – 12:00 pm

People are the most important asset within the translational research field, according to an editorial this month in Science. It’s imperative that the investigators of tomorrow have cross-disciplinary training that allows them to leverage basic science discoveries, population sciences, genomics and bioinformatics to create treatments and delivery methods that reach beyond academia and into the community. [...]

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