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

SUMMER 2007 | VOLUME 5 | No. 2
ACCOLADES

$9 million NHGRI award to University of Chicago team will enable genome-wide discovery of the DNA sequences that regulate genes
The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded $9.1 million over four years to a research team led by the University of Chicago to identify all regulatory elements, the DNA sequences that control when and where specific genes get turned on or off, in the fruit fly genome.

Best Graduate Schools Medical School, graduate bioscience programs move up in popular national survey
Two bioscience graduate programs—paleontology and ecology/evolutionary biology—were ranked the best in the United States, and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine climbed from a two-way tie for 17^th to a three-way tie for 15^th in the latest U.S.News & World Report ranking of the nation’s best graduate schools.

Professors receive academy recognition
Sixteen faculty members were inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators during the second Annual Medical Education Day.

Medical Education Research Grants awarded
The Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators, the Graduate Medical Education Executive Committee, and the University of Chicago Medical Center have selected several recipients for the 2007 Medical Education Research Grants.

Schilsky elected President of Oncology Society
Richard L. Schilsky, MD, an internationally recognized expert in gastrointestinal cancers, cancer pharmacology and drug development, has been selected president elect of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world’s leading professional organization representing physicians who care for people with cancer.

Foundation awards $1 million for pulmonary fibrosis research
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation has awarded $1 million over three years to Joe G.N. Garcia, MD, PhD, professor and chairman of the department of medicine, and Imre Noth, MD, assistant professor of medicine, to develop a Center for Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis.

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