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CENTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

George Grunberger, M.D. has been elected vice president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists; he will also serve on the association’s executive committee and the board of directors.  Dr. Grunberger is an affiliate member of the CMMG and former Director; in 2002 he founded the Grunberger Diabetes Institute in Bloomfield Hills, MI.   More...

Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics Leonard Lipovich, Ph.D., will present his lab’s work at the Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Bio-IT World Conference and Expo 2013, speaking as part of the conference’s Track Nine, Drug Discovery and Informatics. Dr. Lipovich will present “Beyond ENCODE: Placing Long Non-Coding RNA Genes into Regulatory Networks for Therapeutics” in a 25-minute invited talk Thursday.  More...

Gerald Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.M.G., Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, has been elected president-elect of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Dr. Feldman, director of Clinical Genetic Services, will serve as president-elect through March 2015, when he will become president of the college and hold that position through 2017. More...

Lobelia Samavati, M.D., F.C.C.P., Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Internal Medicine, and Director of the WSU Sarcoidosis/Interstitial Lung Disease Center, will use a $389,681 grant for her study, “The Role and Regulation of MKP-1 in Sarcoidosis.” The grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is part of a larger overall $1,906,944 NIH grant.  More...

Interested in becoming a genetic counselor? Visit our open house to learn more about the Wayne State University Genetic Counseling Graduate Program.

Recent research conducted by Center Assistant Professor Dr. Kezhong Zhang, has discovered why people living in congested, urban environments are at greater risk of developing metabolic disease.  The study focuses on air particulate matter, called PM 2.5, and its affects on the liver.  More information is available here.

Wayne State's Systems Biology of Epilepsy Project, led by Jeffrey Loeb, MD, PhD, Associate Director of the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Professor of Neurology, has released three new, published studies that could have a major impact on the treatment of epilepsy.  Find out more here.

Gregory Kapatos, PhD, Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Pharmacology and Leonard Lipovich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Neurology have received the 2012 College Teaching Award in the School of Medicine.

Michael Tainsky, PhD, Professor of Oncology and of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Derek Wildman, PhD, Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Obstetrics and Gynecology have received the 2012 Research Excellence Award in the School of Medicine.

The Center would like to welcome Dr. Samiran Ghosh.  Dr. Ghosh, a biostatistician, will be Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences and of Molecular Medicine and Genetics. He comes from the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, where he worked  on several depression-based projects. He has also published a book titled, "Bayesian Modeling in Bioinformatics."

The Center would like to introduce Erin Carmany, MSCGC, who will be Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics as well as Associate Director of the Genetic Counseling graduate program.  Ms. Carmany has served in the graduate program since 2005 as a clinical instructor.

Dr. Leonard Lipovich, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Molecular Medicine and of Neurology, is determined to prove genetic material once seen as "junk" to be of clinical value.  Dr. Lipovich's lab has already contributed several articles to the Encyclopedia of DNA (ENCODE), an international collaborative effort that is the follow-up to the Human Genome Project.  This work is putting Wayne State University at the forefront of genome analysis, and bringing it alongside high-profile researcher groups in the United States, and Japan. 

The Center welcomes Dr. Roger Pique-Regi as its newest faculty member.  Dr. Pique-Regi is the new Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and also with the Department of Clinical and Translational Sciences.  His lab focuses on the topic of genetic instability, specifically finding the DNA sequences responcible for gene expression and how genetic instability can lead to disease.  His lab also distributes two software packages, CENTIPEDE and GADA, programs used for genetic analysis. 

Dr. Maik Hüttemann, who is Associate Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and also of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, has been selected to receive a 2012 President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.  Dr. Hüttemann will be presented with the award at the Wayne State University Academic Recognition Ceremony held April 26 at the McGregor Memorial Conference Center, where he will receive a citation and a cash award of $2,500.  

Dr. Jeffrey A. Loeb, Professor of Neurology and of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, and Associate Director of the Center, has been selected to receive the 2012 Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship.  Dr. Loeb will receive the Fellowship on July 1st, which includes a total of $13,000 in funds for the next two years. 

Monica Uddin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, has been awarded the 2012 Eli Robins, Samuel Guze award for early career promise by the American Psychopathological Association. More...