Allison Billi, MD, PhD, is the latest Michigan Medicine faculty member to be appointed a Taubman Emerging Scholar. Dr. Billi is an assistant professor of dermatology and scientist studying autoimmune disorders. Her team aims to understand why women are so much more likely to develop autoimmune disease than men, and they are looking into skin…
Thursday, December 16, 5-6 pm via Zoom Join us for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, featuring Jun Lee, PhD. Click here for free Zoom registration. Dr. Lee’s talk, “See Everything Quickly through SEQ-Scope — Microscopic Examination of Spatial Transcriptome,” discusses a technique he and his team have developed. It uses high-throughput sequencing, instead of a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the special challenges facing early-career faculty who are balancing family caregiving responsibilities with building their biomedical research careers. Now, new funding from national nonprofits and internal resources will help support selected U-M Medical School faculty facing this situation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in concert with the American Heart Association,…
John Carethers, MD, chair of Michigan Medicine’s Dept. of Internal Medicine, announced that Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar, Brian Emmer, MD, PhD received the Laurence F. McMahon MD Dept. of Internal Medicine Early Career Endowment Award. His was one of just three awards announced for 2021. Dr. Carethers explained the award as follows: The Department of…
Join us at 5 p.m. on November 9 for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, about using in vivo calcium imaging in freely behaving animals to decode neural information. “How Am I Wired?” will be presented by Joanna Spencer-Segal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of internal medicine in the division of metabolism, endocrinology, and diabetes. This…
Two more Michigan Medicine physician-scientists have been designated as Taubman Emerging Scholars, the university’s Taubman Institute announced. The five-year, $200,000 Emerging Scholar grants are intended to accelerate the work of faculty members who run research laboratories in addition to caring for patients. “Physician-investigators fill a vitally important role in the development of new medical discovery…
Two eminent clinician-scientists at the University of Michigan have received Taubman Scholar appointments, the Taubman Institute announced. Vibha Lama, MD, MS, is a pulmonologist whose research focuses on fibrosis pathways in the lung that are common to several pulmonary conditions. She is an expert on the mesenchymal cell and its fibrogenic transformation regarding lung transplants.…
Michigan Medicine Headlines reported that John M. Carethers, MD, MACP, has been awarded the Harriet P. Dustan Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine by the American College of Physicians (ACP), a national organization of internists. Established by ACP’s board of regents in 1958, this award recognizes outstanding work in science (non-clinical…
Kellogg Eye Center physician-researcher, Rajesh Rao, MD, collaborated with ophthalmologists from Emory University Medical School to study concerns patients have about safely getting treatment for their ongoing eye disease during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of this study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Ophthalmology, showed that doctors and clinics need to…
The U-M Board of Regents has appointed Taubman Scholar Henry L. Paulson, MD, PhD, as interim director of the Michigan Neuroscience Institute (MNI), effective March 1, The MNI, which evolved from the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute in the Medical School, was approved by regents in January 2020 to engage researchers from multiple disciplines and…