Below is a list of notable happenings, awards and accolades that members of CFI have achieved this year.

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On June 14, 2016, past and future grant awardees gathered for the 1st Annual Regenerative Medicine Minnesota(RMM) Idea Exchange and Celebration, held at the University of Minnesota.  Dr. Brian Fife received a Translational Research grant to explore a way to stop the immune system from destroying insulin-producing cells in patients with diabetes.  Read more...

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In the December 2016 Nature Outlook article entitled "Reseeding the Gut" Dr. Alexander Khoruts discusses how gut microbiota likely plays important roles in inflammatory bowel disease and how implanting an entire microbial community from a healthy donor into a sick patient, is emerging as a spectacularly successful treatment for Clostridium difficile infection that cannot be cleared with any other standard therapies like antibiotics.   Read more...

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The annual Dean’s Distinguished Research Lectureship honors up to two outstanding faculty members who are selected to share their research stories which detail the state of the science when they entered the field, changes that emerged due to their work, and plans or predictions for the future of medicine and basic science research. This year Dr. Kristin Hogquist and Dr. Bruce Blazar were honored in a ceremony that was held on Monday November 7, 2016.  Read more...

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Creative solutions to everyday problems and cutting-edge science has been rewarded as Dr. David Masopust has been named to the inaugural class of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholars.   Read more...

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The July 15, 2016 issue of The New York Times features work being done by Dr. Alexander Khoruts, Medical Director of the University of Minnesota Microbiota Therapeutics Program and CFI member. The article talks about the use of fecal transplants, and how the procedure has proved remarkably effective against potentially fatal infections of bacteria known as Clostridium difficileRead more...

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Shirdi

MICaB PhD student Shirdi Schmiel wins 2nd place

MICaB PhD student Shirdi Schmiel won 2nd place for her presentation "Adenosine: Targeting the Enemy from Within" made at the 3 Minute Thesis Competitiion during the 9th annual Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Research Recognition Day on May 26,2016.

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Bryce Binstadt, MD, PhD, has received a Pilot Grant award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation for his research project titled “Targeting inflammatory joint pain with ultra-potent analgesics.”  Read more...

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Congratulations to Javed Mohammed, his paper on the role of stromal cells in controlling residence of immune cells in epidermis has been published in the April Issue of Nature Immunology.   Read more...

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Several CFI graduate students were honored at the 2016 Medical School Honors and Awards Ceremony, which took place on Wednesday, April 20, 2016.  This annual event recognizes students, residents, fellows, and faculty who are outstanding in their endeavors at the University of Minnesota Medical School.  Read more...

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Brian

Dr. Brian Fife...seeking rare cells that cause diabetes...then shutting them down

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Fife for the feature on his diabetes research in the Spring 2016 University of Minnesota Foundation Newsletter!   

 

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Stephen Jameson to employ CRISPR/Cas genome editing in memory T-cell studies to track where the cells reside in experimental mice.  Read more...