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April 17, 2023

 

News

1. Tulane University awarded up to $16 million to bring pneumonia nasal vaccine to clinical trials

 

2. Could a vitamin deficiency cause ‘double-jointedness’ and troubling connective-tissue disorder?

 

3. Faculty opportunity: Deadline extended for Tulane CEERID Pilot Program letters of intent

 

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Events of the Week

Physiology Seminar Series: APS Physiology Summit Presentation Practice Session with Dr. Adrien Molinas, Dr. Lucie Demoulins, and Dr. Kailash N. Pandey. Monday, April 17 at noon. Hutchinson room 6065. See flyer for more information.

 

Tulane Center for Biomedical Informatics & Genomics presents Reconstruct the context-specific 3D human genome at high resolution with Dr. Jianrong Wang, Michigan State University. Monday, April 17 at 3 pm. Via Zoom. More information here.

 

Tulane Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology presents The 21st Annual George A. Adrouny Memorial Lectureship: The coming era of tumor-site focused immunotherapy with Lieping Chen, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine. Tuesday, April 18 from 10 am - noon. Hutchinson Auditorium. More information here.

 

Tulane Freeman School of Business presents the R.W. Freeman Distinguished Lecture with Greg Feirn (MBA '06), CEO of LCMC Health. Tuesday, April 18 at 5 pm. Marshall Family Commons, Goldring/Woldenberg Business Complex (uptown campus), and available to watch via live stream. Click here for more information.

 

Deming Department of Medicine Grand Rounds presents Chemogenomics, Chemical Probes and Compound Sharing: Strategies to Shine Light on Understudied Kinases with David Drewry, PhD, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. Wednesday, April 19 at noon. Hutchinson room 7062. See flyer for more.

 

Picture Day - Thursday, April 20 from 8 am to 4 pm. This is a free event open to all faculty, residents, fellows, students, and staff. JBJ Building 6th floor room 639. Sign up for a time here.

 

Center for Sport Grand Rounds: Nephro-Sports: The kidney at work in play with Nancy J. Gritter, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine & Head Team Physician for the Carolina Panthers. Thursday, April 20 at noon. Via Zoom. See flyer for more.

 

Post-COVID Conditions (Long COVID): Current Status and Future Directions - a conference with experts from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, and Tulane. Friday, April 21 from 8 am to 5 pm. Read more about the symposium here.

 

Tulane Center of Excellence for Emerging/Re-emerging Infectious Disease Research (CEERID) Pilot Program grants for Tulane faculty at the School of Medicine, Tulane National Primate Research Center, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and School of Science and Engineering: The deadline for letters of intent to apply is April 28. Click here for more information.

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Norton & Kolls awarded up to $16 million

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded up to $16 million to Elizabeth Norton, PhD, and Jay Kolls, MD, to bring to phase one clinical trial a nasal spray vaccine university researchers invented to thwart antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, a leading cause of pneumonia. 

Read more about the research here.

 

Jobs at Tulane SoM

Have a friend looking for a great job? Thinking about opportunities for career advancement? The School of Medicine has many openings in many areas - administrative, financial, research, patient care, and more. Here are a few of the positions available this week:

 

Admissions and Communications Specialist for the Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Graduate Program

 

Biostatistician - Tulane Research Innovation for Arrhythmia Discoveries (TRIAD) Center

 

Lab Technician - Microbiology/Immunology

 

To see more, go to Jobs at Tulane.

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