Category: Divisions
CEO of Agilent Technologies to give Leaders & Legends talk
March 29, 2010
William P. “Bill” Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies, is the featured speaker at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School’s Leaders & Legends lecture series on Wednesday, March 31. The event will take place from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the Legg Mason Tower in Harbor East. Sullivan, whose remarks are titled […]
Hormone mimic lowers ‘bad’ cholesterol in statin users
March 29, 2010
People whose “bad” cholesterol and risk of future heart disease stay too high despite cholesterol-lowering statin therapy can safely lower it by adding a drug that mimics the action of thyroid hormone. In a report published in the March 11 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at Johns Hopkins and in Sweden […]
Causes found for ‘stiff skin’ syndrome affecting young adults
March 29, 2010
By studying the genetics of a rare inherited disorder called stiff skin syndrome, researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have learned more about scleroderma, a condition affecting about one in 5,000 people that leads to hardening of the skin as well as other debilitating and often life-threatening problems. The findings, which appeared last […]
Public Health awarded $15 mill for lab renovations
March 22, 2010
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will receive nearly $15 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for renovation and modernization of laboratory space at its main facility at 615 N. Wolfe St. The grant was awarded by the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health. The […]
SoM to host ‘A Tribute to 150+ Women Professors’ celebration
March 22, 2010
Florence Sabin, the famed pathologist, became the first woman given the title of full professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in 1917. The second female professor wasn’t named until more than 40 years later. And when Janice Clements was promoted in 1990, she was only the 24th woman in the nearly 100-year […]
Broholm of KSAS wins Neutron Scattering Society research award
March 22, 2010
Collin Broholm, the Gerhard H. Dieke Professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, has won the Neutron Scattering Society of America’s 2010 Sustained Research Prize for outstanding studies of correlated electron physics in magnets, metals and superconductors, as well as for the development of neutron scattering techniques. According […]
Researchers receive $1 mill to map ‘mobile DNA’ in humans
March 22, 2010
Sequencing the human genome was just one step in understanding our biology; researchers still know very little about the function of most of our DNA. Now, a team of researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine has been awarded $1 million in stimulus funding to examine how certain mobile segments of DNA known as […]
Inexpensive acne drug found to prevent HIV breakout
March 22, 2010
Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating. The drug, minocycline, likely will improve on the current treatment regimens of HIV-infected patients […]
‘Keeping up with the neighbors’ speeds vaccine use
March 22, 2010
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted an analysis of worldwide use of Haemophilus influenza Type b vaccine, or Hib, to determine what factors influenced a nation’s adoption of the vaccine. The study found that a nation’s eligibility for support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization, also known as […]
Why symptoms of schizophrenia emerge in young adulthood
March 22, 2010
In reports of two new studies, a Johns Hopkins–led research team says it has identified the mechanisms rooted in two anatomical brain abnormalities that may explain the onset of schizophrenia and the reason symptoms don’t develop until young adulthood. Both types of anatomical glitches are influenced by a gene known as DISC1, whose mutant form […]