News - 2005 / 2006
Spring 2006 News
University of Chicago Faculty
Members Co-organize, Chair, and SPeak at 2006 FASEB Summer Research
Conferences
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The transplant
immunology 2006 FASEB Summer Research Conferences will
take place June 3-8, 2006 in Snowmass Village, Colorado. The
conference is co-organized by U of C faculty member Anita Chong
(Associate Professor, Transplact Srugery). Maria Alegre
(Assistant Professor, Rheumatology) will chair the session entitled "T
Cells, B Cells, and More!" and will give a talk on "T Cell Activation
in Alloimmunity". (The
Imprint, Spring 2006)
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Eugene Change Appointed to National
Commission
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Eugene B. Chang, M.D., the
Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, has
been appointed to be one of 16 members of the new National Commission
on Digestive Diseases by Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D., Director of the
National Institutes of Health. (The Forefront, May/June 2006 and
the NIH)
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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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Winter 2006 News
Molecular Medicine to the
Rescue
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On August 14, Lilly
Jaffe, a 6-year-old North Shore suburban girl who had been diagnosed
with Type I diabetes when she was 1 month old, checked into the
Clinical Research Center at the University of Chicago. Four days
later, she checked out, starting to make her own insulin, well on her
way to insulin independence and ready to get in a few days of beach
time in Michigan before starting first grade.
As she continued to do well, her insulin was reduced day by day.
The following Wednesday, August 23, with her doctors' direction,
Lilly's mother disconnected her insulin pump-- the lifeline and
security blanket she had relied on for year-- for the last time.
"She is so proud," said her mother, Laurie Jaffe, "so happy, so
excited. She just thrilled, for the first time, to be like her friends
and her brother and sister."
"It was awesome," said her doctor, diabetes specialist Louis Philipson,
Professor of Medicine at Chicago. "It was cool," he added, with
uncharacteristic abandon, "way cool." (The
Forefront, October 2006 and Medicine on the
Midway, Winter 2006)
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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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