Marlan Hansen, MD, professor of otolaryngology and neurosurgery, has been selected to serve a two-year term as chairperson of the Auditory System Study Section of the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science will host a free 5-session seminar on Systematic Literature Reviews and Meta-Analyses.

Patients with severe traumatic brain injuries have high mortality rates and poor long-term outcomes. Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy has been recognized as a possible way to offset the lack of oxygen available due to an acute brain injury by introducing supplemental HBO before cellular energy failure occurs.

What do zebrafish and dance in the 1940s have in common? Both have been the objects of research by our Certificate in Clinical and Translational Science student Mikaela Mallin.

The NINDS Clinical Trials Methodology Course (CTMC) is accepting applications for the 2019 cohort. The goal of CTMC is to help investigators develop scientifically rigorous, yet practical clinical trial protocols. The focus is on investigators who have not previously designed their own prospective, interventional clinical trials.

Patricia Winokur, MD (88R, 91F), executive dean of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and co-director—with Jeff Murray, MD, professor of pediatrics—of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) at the UI, is widening the understanding at both ends of the bench-to-bedside continuum.

A University of Iowa research team will develop an innovative pig model to better understand a rare genetic disorder called neurofibromatosis (NF) thanks to a $931,395 grant from the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF). The funding is part of a three-year, $1.7 million grant that the CTF has awarded to the UI team and their collaborators from Sanford Health and University of Arizona.

Patricia L. Winokur, MD, has been named Executive Dean, UI Carver College of Medicine, effective Jan. 1, 2016. As Executive Dean, Dr. Winokur will work closely with Debra Schwinn, MD, Dean of the UI Carver College of Medicine, and the Dean’s office leadership in overseeing our missions of research, education, clinical, and academic affairs.