University of Iowa Health Care leaders have announced the appointment of Curt Sigmund, Ph.D., as professor and head of the Department of Pharmacology in the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. Sigmund, who is currently a faculty member in the departments of internal medicine and molecular physiology and biophysics, will become head of pharmacology July 1, pending...

University of Iowa microbiologist Stanley Perlman, M.D., Ph.D., has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. The honor recognizes scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology.Perlman, professor of microbiology and pediatrics in the UI Carver College of Medicine, was one of 78 scientists elected to the academy this year.Perlman's research...