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Grand Rounds
February 11
"Genetics of Autism"
Fuki M. Hisama, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics; Associate Professor of Neurology; Medical Director, Genetic Medicine Clinic, University of Washington School of Medicine
DOM faculty awarded ARRA, LSDF funds
Department of Medicine investigators have received over $24 million in grants from the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. The 43 awards range from $5,000 to $4 million. A total of $10.4 billion in NIH funds will be distributed by September 2010, with $8.2 billion directed to extramural scientific research.
The Washington State Life Sciences Discovery Fund has awarded a project grant of $202,759 to André M. Lieber of Medical Genetics; a $791,767 project grant to Daniel Martin, Hematology; and a commercialization grant of $150,000 to Philip Fleckman of Dermatology.
$3 million in new grants to GIM
Two members of
the Division of General internal Medicine recently received new grants from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for investigations of cardiovascular disease. Dedra Buchwald, professor of medicine, received a
5-year $1,119,000 R01 award for her study of cerebrovascular disease among Native Americans. David Siscovick, professor of medicine, was awarded a 3-year $1,928,000 grant for a study of variation throughout the human genome to identify novel genes that influence susceptibility to sudden cardiac arrest.
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Walter E. Stamm, 1945-2009
Dr. Stamm, Professor of Medicine and former Head of the Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, died in Seattle on December 14.
New York Times Seattle Times
New leadership
James H. Caldwell, Jr., has become Acting Head of the Division of Cardiology, succeeding Richard L. Page.
Eliza L. Sutton, General Internal Medicine, is the new Medical Director of the Women's Health Care Center at UWMC-Roosevelt, succeeding Mary Laya.
Raghu “Rags” Durvasula, Nephrology, is now Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Care at the UW Medical Center.
John B. Lynch, Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is medical director of the Infectious Disease Clinic at Harborview Medical Center.
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