Peer Review | The Division of Biological Sciences, University of Chicago

WINTER 2007 | VOLUME 5 | No. 1
IN THIS ISSUE

David Hefner appointed president of University of Chicago
Medical Center
David S. Hefner, an experienced health system executive and national academic medical center consultant, has been appointed President of the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Dr. Olopade University of Chicago Cancer Research Center awarded $11.5 million SPORE grant for breast cancer research
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant to the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center for a series of projects designed to benefit women at high risk for breast cancer.

Scientists find lamprey a ‘living fossil’
Scientists from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the University of Chicago have uncovered a remarkably well-preserved fossil lamprey from the Devonian period that reveals today’s lampreys as “living fossils” since they have remained largely unaltered for 360 million years.