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Top Japanese scientist leaving government post to move to the University of Chicago Medical Center
January 9, 2012 Yusuke Nakamura, MD, PhD, Secretary General in the Japanese Government’s Office of Medical Innovation and a professor of molecular medicine at Tokyo University’s Human Genome Center, has stepped down from his leadership position in the Japanese Cabinet Secretariat. He will join the faculty at the University of Chicago in April 2012.
Evolution of complexity recreated using "molecular time travel"
January 9, 2012 Much of what living cells do is carried out by “molecular machines” — physical complexes of specialized proteins working together to carry out some biological function. How the minute steps of evolution produced these constructions has long puzzled scientists, and provided a favorite target for creationists.
Insight on the University of Chicago
Summary University of Chicago is a private research institution that was founded in 1892. Located in the community of Hyde Park on Chicago’s South Side, just 15 minutes from the…
UIC faculty unionization pending
After two years of coordination, faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago are closer than ever to unionizing. On Friday, they provided the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board…
CEO of Chicago Public Schools Ron Huberman to Receive Doctor of Humane Letters
CHICAGO (CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM) — The Institute for Clinical Social Work (ICWS) will confer a Doctor of Humane Letters on Ron Huberman at its Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, June 5, 2010. Huberman,…
University of Chicago sending second round of medical teams for Haitian relief effort
Three more teams from the University of Chicago Medical Center — a total of 22 people — will fly to Santo Domingo on Saturday, Sunday and Thursday to provide continued…
Laboratory Schools and Alderman Hairston invite community to meeting on proposed expansion
Laboratory Schools and Alderman Hairston invite community to meeting on proposed expansion The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and 5th Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston invite community members to a public…
University of Chicago names Chicago policy expert to lead its education research unit
The University of Chicago has selected Paul Goren, senior vice president of Chicago’s Spencer Foundation and a national leader in the education foundation community, to head its Consortium on Chicago…
University of Chicago medical team in place for Haitian relief effort
A University of Chicago team of three physicians, two nurses and 1,100 pounds of medical, surgical and pharmaceutical supplies arrived in the Dominican Republic on Monday, Jan. 25, on its…
University of Chicago establishes new center for chemical innovation
University of Chicago establishes new center for chemical innovation University of Chicago chemists published an article in the Journal of Chemical Physics three years ago that described an early step…
