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Medical / Pharmaceutical Research Issues
Billions of dollars are spent in the U.S. each year on research and development of new therapies and cures for all types of diseases, and the many issues facing high profile research institutions, such as Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, are complex.
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William Peck
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine
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Peck, former dean of the School of Medicine, directs the University's Center for Health Policy. Revolutionary scientific advances promise great improvements in the prevention and diagnosis of disease and the treatment of patients. But major obstacles must be overcome before this enormous potential ...
Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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William A. Peck
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Medicine
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Both Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin argue that the country needs to get more value for its healthcare dollars, but they differ on what changes would be most effective. Peck, an internist who has treated many patients, is a nationally recognized leader in health care. He served for 14 years as dean of ...
Expertise: Health care policy, health care costs, disparities in access to care, workforce issues
Media assistance: (314) 286-0109 / arbanasc@wustl.edu
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Rebecca Dresser
Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law
Dresser's book, "When Science Offers Salvation: Patient Advocacy and Research Ethics", was published in 2001. Dresser is also co-author of "The Human Use of Animals: Case Studies in Ethical Choice" and "Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems". She is one of the "At Law" columnists for ...
Expertise: patient advocacy, research ethics, bioethics and law, biomedical research, dementia, embryo research, stemcell, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8769
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dresser@wulaw.wustl.edu
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Steven Teitelbaum
Wilma and Roswell Messing Professor of Pathology and Immunology
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As the past president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States — Teitelbaum is a strong supporter for therapeutic cloning. Somatic cell nuclear transfer, as it is also known, could hold the potential ...
Expertise: Experimental biology, therapeutic cloning, osteoporosis, bone degeneration, bone disease
Media assistance: (314) 286-0120 / westerhousej@wustl.edu
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Jackson Nickerson
Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy
Nickerson's area of expertise includes corporate strategy and policy, economic policy, microeconomics, industrial organization, organizational economics, new institutional economics, intellectual capital management, technology licensing, organizational theory, human resource management, organizational ...
Expertise: business strategy & public policy, intellectual capital management, new institutional economics, organizational economics, organizational theory, technology licensing, corporate strategy and policy, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-6374
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nickerson@olin.wustl.edu
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Nanoscience pioneer explains new imaging techniques
Alivisatos to speak on new technique for creating biological imaging tools
Feb. 23,
2009 -- Paul Alivisatos shares his pioneering work with nanocrystals to develop medical breakthroughs in biological imaging at the Assembly Series on Wednesday, March 4, at 11 a.m. in Graham Chapel.
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NIH to set women's health research priorities
WU hosts public hearing, conference to help NIH prioritize women's health research
Feb. 16,
2009 -- What are your priorities for women's health research? The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wants to know. Washington University will host a national meeting March 4-6 on behalf of the NIH Office of Research in Women's Health as it begins to develop research priorities for the next decade.
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New position to advance research
Lodge named associate dean for research at Washington University School of Medicine
Jan. 21,
2009 --
Jennifer Lodge has been named associate dean for research at the School of Medicine. The appointment is effective Feb. 1, 2009. In the newly created position, Lodge will coordinate efforts to advance research at the school, focusing particularly on projects that involve multiple departments, multiple disciplines and core facilities that can serve a wide variety of researchers.
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U.S. Census Bureau data on the medically uninsured simply can't be denied
Los Angeles Times
Sept. 17,
2009 -- Michael Hiltzik says the medically uninsured iin America have become a political football. Opponents and supporters of healthcare reform toss assertions about them back and forth.
The report, which says 46.3 million people lacked coverage as of the end of 2008, makes the case for reform stronger than ever by punching holes in arguments that minimize the plight of the uninsured.
Includes comments by WUSTL social work and public health professor Timothy McBride.
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Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!
Huffingtonpost.com
Sept. 16,
2009 -- WUSTL economics professor David Levine says abolishing 'intellectual property' won't solve all social ills, but it would be a big step in the right direction for solving a range of problems from the high cost of health care, to innovating our way out of the current recession. In a series of posts with his co-author, WUSTL economics professor Michele Boldrin, they will be posting here about green technology, entertainment, free speech, multinationals, and innovation over the next weeks.
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New Clues to Sex Anomalies in How Y Chromosomes Are Copied
The New York Times
Sept. 16,
2009 -- Article looks at another David Page contribution to the science of genetics.
A weakness in the system that allows the male Y chromosome to protect and repair itself can explain an array of genetic sexual disorders.:
The palindromes were discovered in 2003 when the Y chromosome's sequence of bases, represented by the familiar letters G, C, T and A, was first worked out by David Page of the Whitehead Institute and colleagues at the DNA sequencing center at WUSTL medical school.
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Sleep helps reduce errors in memory
United Press International
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Sept. 15,
2009 -- Researchers at Michigan State, Chicago, and WUSTL says sleep may reduce mistakes in memory for both the young and the old.
They studied the presence of false memory in groups of college students. Previous research has shown that sleep improves memory, but this study address errors in memory.
The study was published in the journal Learning & Memory.
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Brain Scientists Misled By Squid
NPR Morning Edition
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Sept. 11,
2009 -- Jon Hamilton reports on a recent German study in Science that says that for more than 50 years, scientists who study the brain have been misled by squid. They did experiments on squid nerve cells thinking that those cells were good models for the human nervous system.
WUSTL radiology professor Marcus Raichle, who does brain imaging studies, says, "There is always this tendency that if you're working in an area and your experiments are working well and you're getting good data, to not think of the larger context in which this is occurring."
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