News and Commentary from the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research (BRIMR.ORG)
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1. Donald F. Steiner, MD, the A.N. Pritzker
Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology at the
2. The Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research is now an affiliate of Research!America. To see a list of the other affiliates and supporters, click here.
3. As was predicted on these pages in September, Elizabeth H. Blackburn (UCSF) and Carol W. Greider (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), the discoverers of telomerase (the enzyme that is essential for the duplication of the ends of chromosomes, or telomeres), received the Nobel Prize for their work.
The following photos show some of the 2009 laureates at the Nobel Award ceremony in Stockholm on 10 December 2009.
4. The following paper has been accepted for publication: "The biosynthesis of N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NADA), a putative endocannabinoid and endovanilloid, via conjugation of arachidonic acid with dopamine". This paper appears in Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids. You can access this paper by clicking here. This research represents an international collaboration involving five institutions. We note with regret that one of the senior investigators in this study, Dr. J. Michael Walker, died as a result of congestive heart failure on 5 January 2008. He was only 57 years of age. 5. WCQS and WYQS, Western North Carolina Public Radio Stations that make up the Mountain Air Network, featured the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research on 14 October 2008. The Mountain Air Network featured the Institute again on 14 September 2009. 6. Robert Roskoski Jr. attended a meeting of the University of Chicago School of Medicine Class of 1964 on 5 June 2009. For a look at some of the photos, click here. 7. Robert Roskoski Jr. attended a symposium near the NIH in Bethesda in honor of Earl R. Stadtman on 29 April 2009. Dr. Stadtman received his PhD under the tutelage of HA Barker at the University of California at Berkeley and was a postdoctoral associate of Dr. Fritz Lipmann at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Click here for a view of the program and links to additional information on Dr. Stadtman. 8. The following paragraph describes the establishment of the American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Fritz Lipmann Lectureship in 1987-1988. The paragraph was taken from "The ASBMB Centennial History" by Ralph A. Bradshaw, Charles C. Hancock, and Nicole Kresge (ISBN 1-893571-09-2) published in 2009.
9. Hendersonville, NC was named among the top 10 small towns in the South in the January 2009 issue of Southern Living magazine. Click here for a look at the first page of the article. 10. Robert Roskoski Jr. resides in Hendersonville, North Carolina. A web site promotes Hendersonville as the most friendly city in America. 11. Robert Roskoski Jr. was featured in the People Section of the 15 September 2008 issue of C&E (Chemical and Engineering) News. Click here for a look at this section.
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Important questions in research posed by two investigators. What is the mechanism? – Fritz Lipmann What is the evidence? or Vot iss de effidence? A.J. Carlson |
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Updated 9 March 2010