Yamashita named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
May 9, 2013 - Yamashita named Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator
ANN ARBOR—Yukiko Yamashita of the University of Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute is one of 27 biomedical researchers named today as Howard Hughes Medical Institute ... Learn more...
CDNM announces second round of grants for drug discovery research
April 26, 2013 - CDNM announces second round of grants for drug discovery research
The Center for the Discovery of New Medicines (CDNM) awarded a second round of grants, funding five projects across University of Michigan to move promising potential drugs to the n... Learn more...
2013 Perrigo Undergraduate Fellows announced
April 23, 2013 - 2013 Perrigo Undergraduate Fellows announced
Each year the Life Sciences Institute offers the Perrigo Undergraduate Summer Fellowship to highly qualified undergraduate students currently enrolled at any university or college in Michigan. Most appl... Learn more...
Maillard elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
April 19, 2013 - Maillard elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
LSI faculty member Ivan Maillard was elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an honor society of physician-scientists. Founded in 1908, the Society is h... Learn more...
Beyond stem cells: Yamashita receives Keck award
February 4, 2013 - Beyond stem cells: Yamashita receives Keck award
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Yukiko Yamashita, research assistant professor at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and assistant professor in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Universi... Learn more...
CDNM announces first grants for drug discovery research
December 5, 2012 -
CDNM announces first grants for drug discovery research
The Center for the Discovery of New Medicines (CDNM) awarded its first round of grants. Eight projects across University of Michigan will be funded. The support allows researchers to m... Learn more...
Gestwicki named AAAS Fellow
November 30, 2012 -
Gestwicki named AAAS Fellow
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected Life Sciences Institute faculty member Jason Gestwicki to the rank of AAAS Fellow. Gestwicki is an associate professor of pathology and of b... Learn more...
Maillard's treatment of patient with rare cancer featured in TV news segment
November 28, 2012 - Dr. Ivan Maillard is a practicing oncologist who researches blood-forming stem cells to increase understanding of leukemia and other cancers, dividing his time between his lab at the LSI and a clinic at the U-M Cancer Center. One of his pat... Learn more...
Allison Billi of the Kim lab receives Med School Graduate Student Research Award
October 17, 2012 - Allison Billi of the Kim lab receives Med School Graduate Student Research Award
Allison Billi, a graduate student in John Kim’s lab in the Life Sciences Institute, received the 2012 Graduate Student Research Award from the University of Michi... Learn more...
Lin awarded U-M Med School Dean's Basic Science Research Award
September 12, 2012 - Lin awarded Dean's Basic Science Research Award
LSI faculty member Jiandie Lin is a receipt of the Dean's Basic Science Award, which recognizes a scientist or group of scientists identified as having made outstanding contributions to the Medical Sc... Learn more...
Ginsburg receives Stratton Medal for accomplishments in the fields of thrombosis and blood cell immunology
September 4, 2012 - Ginsburg receives Stratton Medal for accomplishments in the fields of thrombosis and blood cell immunology
Dr. David Ginsburg, Life Sciences Institute faculty member, James V. Neel Distinguished University Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Gen... Learn more...
Jeff Herbstman in Skiniotis lab receives NIH award
August 17, 2012 - Jeff Herbstman in Skiniotis lab receives NIH award
Jeffrey Herbstman, a researcher in Georgios Skiniotis’s lab at the Life Sciences Institute and co-chair of the University of Michigan Postdoc Association, has been awarded the Na... Learn more...
Skiniotis receives PECASE award
July 23, 2012 -
Skiniotis receives PECASE award
Georgios Skiniotis, a faculty member at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI) and assistant professor in biological chemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School, received the 2012 Presidential Early Career... Learn more...
Kristoff Homan in Tesmer Lab awarded AHA Postdoc Fellowship
July 9, 2012 -
Kristoff Homan in Tesmer Lab awarded AHA Postdoc Fellowship
Kristoff T. Homan, a researcher in John Tesmer’s lab at the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), has been awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Homan... Learn more...
Searching for potential drugs in China’s natural world
June 13, 2012 - Discovery of natural product medicines from biodiversity resources in China
University of Michigan researcher David Sherman will begin a new project this fall in collaboration with leading scientists Zixin Deng and Linquan Bai of Shanghai Jiao Tong ... Learn more...
Insulin resistance in the defense against obesity
June 5, 2012 - On the horizon of diabetes treatment
Q&A with LSI Director Alan Saltiel
Obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic numbers in some parts of the world, but major questions around how obesity leads to diabetes, why insulin treatment doesn&rs... Learn more...
ASPET young scientist pharmacology awards for LSI post-docs
May 25, 2012 -
Post-docs receive awards for work in pharmacology
Angeline Lyon, a post-doctoral researcher working in John Tesmer’s lab at the Life Sciences Institute, received first place in the 2012 Molecular Pharmacology Division Young Scien... Learn more...
Q&A: Dr. Susan Lindquist, LSI Symposium keynote speaker, on the complexity of neurodegenerative disease
May 23, 2012 - Q&A: Dr. Susan Lindquist on the complexity of neurodegenerative disease
Dr. Susan Lindquist will deliver the Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture at the 11th Annual LSI Symposium. Lindquist is a member and former director of ... Learn more...
