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GORELICK AND PANDEY TO DIRECT CLINICAL COORDINATION CENTER FOR STROKE TRIAL Philip B. Gorelick, MD, MPH, John S. Garvin Professor and head of neurology and rehabilitation, has been named director of the clinical coordinating center for the U.S. Desmoteplase in Acute Ischemic Stroke Trial, and Dilip K. Pandey, MD, PhD, associate professor of neurology and rehabilitation, has been named the center's co-director. They are responsible for establishing 100 local clinical centers across six regions of the U.S. in a hub-spoke model that Gorelick developed. DIAS is an international clinical trial testing a new thrombolytic (clot dissolving) agent, desmoteplase, for acute ischemic stroke. Philip B. Gorelick Dilip K. Pandey Ilene Harris professor and director of graduate studies. Harris also is a professor of pathology in the division of pathol- ogy education. A national leader in medical education, Harris recently completed a four-year term as a member of the research in medical education steering committee of the Association of American Medi- cal Colleges, on which she served as chair. She also has held major leader- ship roles in the American Educa- tional Research Association, from which she received the 2010 Distinguished Career Award. Her research interests center on effective clinical teaching, deliberative processes in curriculum development, clinical performance assessment and the use of qualita- tive methods to study the processes and outcomes of medical education, resulting in more than 100 published journal articles. Harris received her PhD in education from the University of Chicago. RADULOVACKI, CARLEY SHARE 'INVENTOR OF THE YEAR' AWARD Miodrag "Misha" Radulovacki, PhD, professor of pharmacology and medicine, has been named co-win- ner of the 2010 UIC Inventor of the Year Award. The University of Illinois at Chicago Office of Technology Management also honored David Carley, PhD, director of the Center for Narcolepsy, Sleep and Health Research and research director of the Sleep Science Center within the College of Nursing Research Enterprise. Car- ley holds joint appointments in the colleges of Nursing, Engineering and Medicine, the last as profes- sor of pharma- cology and medi- cine. The two professors have been exploring the causes and consequences of sleep disorders by develop- ing numerous therapies to treat sleep-disorder breathing issues like sleep apnea syndrome. Their results have culminated in an Illi- noisVENTURES-supported startup company, Pier Pharmaceuticals, which focuses on the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. The OTM works with inventors at University of Illinois at Chicago and serves as a catalyst to help bring together inventors and external companies. Miodrag "MIsha" Radulovacki David Carley NATARAJAN RECEIVES MERIT AWARD Viswanathan Natarajan Viswanathan Natarajan, PhD, professor of pharma- cology and medicine and co-director of the Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, received a Method to Extend Research in Time Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The MERIT Award is given to investigators with a history of exceptional talent, imagination and preeminent sci- entific achievements and provides them the opportunity to continue making fundamental contribu- tions of lasting scientific value. Selection for the award requires a unanimous vote by the NHLBI Advisory Council and the approval of the NHLBI director. Natarajan's research focuses on the mecha- nisms of generation of intracel- lular sphingosine-1-phosphate, a naturally occurring bioactive lipid, and its role in inflammation and barrier regulation of the pulmonary endothelium. NIEDERBERGER NAMED CO-EDITOR OF FERTILITY AND STERILITY Craig Niederberger, MD, professor and head of urology and professor of bioengineering, has been named one of the co-editors in chief of Fertility and Sterility, a scholarly jour- nal published by the Ameri- can Society for Reproductive Medicine. He is the first urologist to be a co-editor in the international journal's 60-year history. Craig Niederberger 12 | SUMMER 2 011

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