GLP-1 pioneer and Taubman Scholars to headline Taubman Institute 2025 Spring Symposium. Please plan to join us on May 7 in the Kahn Auditorium of the A. Alfred Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building for an informative half-day symposium featuring the following distinguished speakers: Richard DiMarchi, PhD: Headlines have been dominated in recent months by…
Two Taubman Scholars are among 13 U-M faculty members elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2024, the professional society announced March 27. The AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society, released the names of 471 members of the 2024 class, elected for their “efforts on behalf of the advancement of…
The Taubman Institute invites you to attend its May 7 symposium, which will feature a keynote and Q&A with Dr. DiMarchi, as well as complementary talks by Michigan Medicine faculty. A scientific poster session with cash prizes, open to all U-M researchers, will precede the talks and be judged by Taubman Scholars. The Taubman Institute…
A Michigan Medicine urologist seeking to improve early detection of prostate and kidney cancer is the newest Taubman Emerging Scholar. Simpa Salami, MD, MPH, has been named the Brian and Rosaline Chamberlain Emerging Scholar, and will receive a five-year financial grant as well as mentorship and other support from the Taubman Institute community. Dr. Salami’s…
Emerging Scholar, Sami Barmada, MD, PhD, is one of six U-M scientists and engineers receiving the Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award, which recognizes exceptional mid-career faculty in the biosciences. Dr. Barmada is the Angela Dobson Welch and Lyndon Welch Research Professor and associate professor of neurology, and the institute’s Danto Family Foundation Emerging Scholar.…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Katherine A. Gallagher, MD, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the highest honorary society in the country for researchers in the fields of health and medicine. Dr. Gallagher, who received Taubman Institute funding for her early research into the mechanisms of impaired wound healing in patients with…
Taubman Scholar Kanakadurga Singer, M.A., M.D. has been appointed assistant dean for tenure track faculty in the University of Michigan Medical School, effective Nov. 1. Dr. Singer will provide oversight of tenure track faculty appointments and promotions and advancement, and serve as an advocate for tenure track faculty in the medical school and university. As…
Charles F. Burant, MD, PhD, will lead Michigan Medicine’s Taubman Institute for an additional five-year term, announced Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, executive vice president for medical affairs and dean of the U-M medical school. Burant was first appointed in 2017, succeeding founding director Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD. His second term will span 2022-2027. “We…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Rajesh Rao, MD, is leading a new clinical trial of a stem cell treatment for patients with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Eighteen patients in the trial will receive as many as 250,000 specially engineered cells derived from adult retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells. The experimental cells are injected under the macula,…
Research supported in part by the Taubman Institute has developed new findings about the immune systems of patients with the autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Investigators including Taubman Emerging Scholars Michele Kahlenberg, MD, PhD, and Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD, note in a recently published paper that the normal-appearing skin of lupus patients contains the same inflammatory…