The Knights Templar Eye Foundation, Inc., awarded its $40,000 Pediatric Ophthalmology Research Grant to Steven Stasheff, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pediatrics and ophthalmology and visual sciences with University of Iowa Health Care, during its meeting on Oct. 23 in Des Moines. Stasheff presented a report to the Knights Templar members on his proposed research as well as other vision...

Daniel O'Leary, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, has received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study brain development in adolescents with genetic risk factors for alcoholism. The researchers will use advanced...

By Leslie Tamura Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, July 20, 2010 Police officers in many jurisdictions use stun guns to incapacitate suspects, but the weapons have started to show up in hospital settings as well, a migration that has raised some concerns.On July 8, a security guard used a stun gun on the 25-year-old nephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after he allegedly became...

The National Institutes of Health has invited Timothy Brennan, M.D., Samir D. Gergis Professor of Anesthesia, Vice Chair for Research, to serve as a member of the Surgery, Anesthesiology and Trauma Study Section, Center for Scientific Review. Dr. Brennan will serve in this capacity from July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2014. Please take a moment to read more about this appointment.

Timothy Brennan, M.D., Ph.D., Samir Gergis Professor of Anesthesia, Vice Chair for Research, will receive the Frederick W. L. Kerr Basic Science Research Award from the American Pain Society (APS) during the group’s annual meeting held May 6-8, 2010. This award was established in 1987 in honor of Frederick W. L. Kerr, an APS founder, to recognize individual excellence and achievement in pain...

"When pain gets chronic, people do less," says Kathleen Sluka, professor of physical therapy and rehabilitation science at the University of Iowa. "Their muscles get weaker and their bodies get tighter, and they think about pain a lot more. Movement techniques help them relax, make them stronger and reduce stress levels, so maybe they can think about something other than pain for a bit."Read more...

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...

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) named Physics Professor Thomas F. Boggess Jr. and Mathematics Professor Weimin Han Collegiate Fellows in recognition of their distinguished teaching, research and service. The college named Professor John Freeman the first Stuit Faculty Fellow in Psychology, and Psychology Professor Susan Lutgendorf a Starch Faculty Fellow...

A new study suggests that our ability to respond appropriately to intended harms is seated in a brain region associated with regulating emotions. The finding offers a new piece to the puzzle of how the human brain constructs morality. Among the study's authors is DANIEL TRANEL of the University of Iowa.