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Showing posts with label otis vacratsis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label otis vacratsis. Show all posts
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Besa Xhabija wins poster prize at the 10th Biannual Great Lakes Glia Meeting
The Vacratsis lab participated in the 10th Biannual Great Lakes Glia
Meeting that took place on Sept 27-29th, 2015 in Traverse City,
Michigan. Besa Xhabija was awarded the Best Poster Award, which carried a cash prize of $200. Congratulations Besa!
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Outstanding chemists and biochemists receive research and infrastructure grants
Dr. Vacratsis said the funding will help him hire graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who will utilize a variety of analytical and biological techniques to better understand the cellular processes involved in CMT, a neuromuscular disorder characterized by loss of muscle mass and touch sensation across various parts of the body. Currently incurable, the disease is one of the most common inherited neurological disorders and affects about one in 2,500 people.
“We do very basic, fundamental science in my lab, but hopefully people will be able to use our findings in a clinical setting,” Vacratsis said.
Congratulations also to Michael Boffa and Jichang Wang, who received infrastructure grants in support of their research programs.
Click here to access the full story from the Daily News.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Researchers in Chemistry and Biochemistry receive Seeds4Hope funding
Congratulations to Professor James Green, who was awarded a Seeds4Hope grant to develop compounds that have shown early success killing cancer cells.Excerpt from the Windsor Star article:
“As a chemist, you’re so used to having long hours of work without immediate rewards, that you often think, ‘I better not hope too much,’” Green said Monday after collecting a grant to continue his research for two more years. “But so far, I’m delighted. I really hope it leads to something.”
On Monday, Green’s project was awarded $67,000 over two years by Seeds4Hope, funded by the Windsor & Essex County Cancer Centre Foundation. Also collecting research grants from Seeds4Hope on Monday were University of Windsor professors Andrew Swan, who will use $63,000 over two years to probe tumour-suppressing functions of cancer genes, and Panayiotis Vacratsis, who will use $76,000 over two years to investigate a possible link between a specific tumour growth and survival.
To read more:
In addition, Prof. Otis Vacratsis was awarded $76,000 for his proposal: Functional Characterization of hYVH1/DUSP12: A Putative Oncogene Overexpressed in Late Stage Cancers. This research project focuses on investigating a new cell survival enzyme (hYVH1), that has recently been implemented in both cell growth and division, and has been found to be over productive in many aggressive, late stage cancers.
To learn more about our department, visit http://www.uwindsor.ca/chemistry.
Click the professors' names above to visit their websites.
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