News - 2005 / 2006
Spring 2006 News
Gwen and Jules Knapp Give $25M for the Gwen
and Jules Knapp for Biomedical Discovery
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In February, longstanding University of Chicago
friends and
philanthropists, Gwen and Jules Knapp, donated $25 million to name the
Gwen and Jules Knapp Center for Biomedical Diversity. This gift
will not only help build the University's tallest research building, it
is also an example of the Knapps' continuing impact on science and
medicine at Chicago. (The
University of Chicago Legacy, Volume 18).
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Dr. Charles RIce is featured speaker at annual
Hilleman Lecture on Virology
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On April 6th, the Committee on Microbiology
hosted the annual Hilleman Lecture on Virology. Dr. Charles Rice
(Rockefeller) was the featured speaker. He investigates animal RNA
viruses, inlcuding the hepatitus C virus and the yellow fever virus, as
well as the DNA herpesvirsuses to elucidate the molecular mechanisms
responsible for viral replication, the determinants of the virus
host-interaction, and the means by which the host responds to viral
infection. The lectureship is named after Maurice Hilleman, who
received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1944 and later
served as the Vice President of Merck and the Director of the Merck
Institute for Vaccinology. The directors of Merck & Co. established
the Maurice R. Hilleman Lectureship Award at the University of Chicago
in 1969. Dr. Hilleman died on April 11, 2005.
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Winter 2006 News
Dr. Raymond Roos is elected to the Johns
Hopkins University Society of Scholars
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Raymond Roos, M.D./Ph.D.,
professor and former chair of neurology, has been elected to the Johns
Hopkins University Society of Scholars as one of 15 esteemed scientists
and clinicians honored during the society's 37th induction
ceremony. Roos is a nationally recognized researcher and leading
clinician in the field of neurodegenerative disorders, particularly
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis and prion diseases. (Medicine on the
Midway, Winter 2007)
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Autumn 2005 News
BSD Breaks Ground on the
Center for Biomedical Discovery
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The groundbreaking ceremony
for the Center for
Biomedical Discovery (CBD) took place on October 17, 2005, marking an
exciting point in the timeline for construction of this new facililty.
The CBD will house research programs from the Departments of Medicine
and Pediatrics, the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, the
Institute for Molecular Pediatric Science and the Ludwig Center for
Metastasis Research. Leaders of these programs are (pictured left to
right) Dr. Geoffrey Greene, Ph.D., Co-Director, Ludwig
Center for Metastasis Research, Dr. Michelle LeBeau, Ph.D., Director,
Cancer Research Center, Dr. Ralph Weichselbaum, M.D., Co-Director,
Ludwig Center for Metastasis Research, and Steven Goldstein, M.D.,
Ph.D., Chairman of Pediatrics and Director, Institute for Molecular
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