2009 Releases
November 20, 2009 - Immediately upon return from Washington D.C., Dr. Georgel flew to Kuwait City to participate to the 1st National Conference on Cancer Control in Kuwait (November 9-10, 2009) as an invited speaker. This first National conference sponsored by the...
November 18, 2009 - NEWS FROM MARSHALL UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded five grants totaling $3 million...
November 18, 2009 - Marshall University's Annual Biomedical Sciences Open House for prospective students took place on Friday, October 23rd. This year was different from the past, however, because students interested in Biomedical Sciences, Biological Sciences, or...
October 7, 2009 - Acetaminophen slows muscle loss
New research done at Marshall shows that acetaminophen can help the muscles generate proteins that people stop...
September 25, 2009 - Grant award approved for MU
September 25, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON A more than $500,000 grant award has been approved for Marshall University's...
September 10, 2009 - Michael Brown is a Ph.D. candidate within Marshall's Biomedical Sciences graduate program and has been selected to receive funding from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium. The Board will fund his research project for $12,000, which will...
September 4, 2009 - Dr.
Piyali Dasgupta has been awarded $12,000 from the American Retina Foundation (ARF) to
study whether nicotine stimulates the development of age-related macular
degeneration (ARMD), the leading cause of blindness in the elderly...
August 27, 2009 - The Ramada Limited of Huntington served as the home for the Fifth Annual Biomedical Sciences Research Retreat held on Friday, August 21st, 2009. During the retreat, faculty and students socialized, new students were introduced to the research...
August 25, 2009 -
August 17, 2009 - MU gets grant from National Cancer Institute
August 14, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Cancer Institute has awarded Marshall University a research grant for more than...
August 5, 2009 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Contact: Ginny Painter, Communications Director, Marshall University Research Corporation 304-746-1964
Gene regulation specialist joins Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research...
August 3, 2009 - U.S. Senate bill could give MU $3 million for medical research
August 01, 2009 @ 12:00 AM
The Herald-Dispatch
WASHINGTON Marshall University could receive $3 million for medical research facilities in a bill approved by the U.S. Senate,...
July 22, 2009 - ECCC and MU study ways to improve leukemia treatment options
Oscar Ballester, MD, (left), a medical oncologist at the Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center is now a year into a cancer...
July 22, 2009 - Dr. Dasgupta Wins FAMRI Award
(article taken from MU-Advance)
The Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI) has awarded Dr. Piyali Dasgupta a $300,000 award toward her lung cancer research. Formed in response to a successful lawsuit...
June 9, 2009 - Congratulations to Gary O. Rankin, Ph.D. and his WV-INBRE team for receiving the National Institutes of Health (NIH) competitive renewal grant of 17.8 million dollars! The grant will be for five years and will help continue a multidisciplinary...
June 8, 2009 - Angela Ridgel earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Marshall University in 2000 and is now Assistant Professor at Kent State University. She started studying walking in insects and robots in Dr. Sasha Zill's lab (and as a postdoc at Case...
June 1, 2009 - Marshall University's Biomedical Sciences graduate program is pleased to announce its first annual Summer Research Internship for Minority Students (SRIMS) to take place the summer of 2009. The program is nine weeks of graduate-level research in the...
May 28, 2009 - Marshall University Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. candidates, Mike Brown and Lauren Richards-Waugh, were both finalists in the Carl Smith Mechanisms Graduate Student Competition for the Mechanisms Specialty Section at the Society of Toxicology (SOT)...
April 30, 2009 - W. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D. has been nationally and internationally recognized for her ground-breaking research with walnuts and how they impact cancer growth. Dr. Hardman is a researcher and associate professor with Marshall University's Joan C....
April 28, 2009 - Marshall University Biomedical Sciences researcher Dr. Elaine Hardman has been recognized, once again, for her ground-breaking research in nutrition and cancer prevention. Oncology Nutrition Connection, a highly respected and peer-reviewed...
April 28, 2009 - Melinda "Mindy" Varney is a Ph.D. candidate within Marshall University's Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and has been selected to receive funding from the NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium for a third year! The Board will fund her...
April 10, 2009 - Dr. Piyali Dasgupta, of the Marshall University Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Cancer Biology research cluster and the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Toxicology, has been selected to receive the MARSHALL UNIVERSITY DISTINGUISHED...
March 30, 2009 - Marshall University Graduate College, the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Fellows Program, and West Virginia University Graduate Programs came together for the second year to host a reception to honor the participants of WV...
March 19, 2009 - The following article was taken from The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON More than 100 students, including 35 from Marshall University, took part in the sixth annual Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol in Charleston on Thursday, March 12. ...
February 12, 2009 - Marshall graduate student conducting research in Italy
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – A Marshall University graduate student is in Italy this semester to conduct research under an international exchange agreement between Marshall’s...
January 29, 2009 - J. Adam Hall, a Ph.D. student in Marshall University's Biomedical Sciences (BMS) program working in Dr. Georgel’s laboratory, recently has been awarded a prestigious National Institutes of Health (NIH) pre-doctoral fellowship (Individual Ruth L....
January 5, 2009 - Dr. Piyali Dasgupta, of Marshall University's Cancer Biology research cluster and the Department of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Toxicology, has been selected to receive an ASPET(American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental...
