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Director of the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research
Expertise: biodefense, infectious diseases
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Stanley directs the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research (MRCE), funded by a $35 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The center's mission is to support basic and translational research in critical areas of biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest, which includes Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. The center will concentrate on expanding current research efforts in biodefense, identifying new areas of need in the field and expanding facilities to support biodefense research.
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Stanley targets infectious disease, helps faculty meet research goal
Feb. 1,
2008 -- Located smack in the middle of the United States, St. Louis seems an unlikely place to study tropical diseases typically found half a world away in Africa and Asia. But when Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., came to Washington University as a fellow in 1983, he knew he wanted to devote his career to tropical diseases, having spent time treating patients in Africa as a Harvard medical student.
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Research!America
Samuel Stanley named global health research ambassador
July 11,
2007 --
Samuel Stanley, vice chancellor of research, has been named an Ambassador in Research!America's Paul G. Rogers Society for Global Health Research. Stanley is now one of 50 of the nation's foremost global health experts who have joined forces to increase awareness about the critical need for greater U.S. public and private investment in research to improve global health.
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DNA differences
Fever after smallpox vaccination tied to individual genetic variations
June 18,
2007 -- St. Louis researchers have identified common DNA variations that underlie susceptibility to fever after smallpox vaccination. Their finding is the first to link individual differences written into the genetic code with a vaccine-related complication - albeit a mild one. Most of the eight genetic alterations the scientists identified increased the likelihood of fever after smallpox vaccination. A few, however, reduced fever risk.
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Medical research funding
Washington University joins eight other institutions to warn Congress about dangers of continued flat funding for biomedical research
March 19,
2007 -- Washington University today joined a consortium of leading scientific and medical institutions around the country to warn Congress that persistent flat-funding of biomedical research could thwart advances in treatments for such diseases as cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Following today's Senate Appropriations Labor-HHS Committee hearing on funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Washington University and the eight other institutions issued a report at a Capitol Hill press conference on funding for U.S. medical research.
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Will oversee an 'extraordinary enterprise'
Samuel Stanley named vice chancellor for research at Washington University
Feb. 9,
2006 --
Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., a professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, has been appointed the university's new vice chancellor for research. The announcement of Stanley's appointment was made by Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton, and is effective July 1, 2006.
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