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HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR) and the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine today announced they will be partnering with an international biosciences company to develop potential anti-cancer drugs. Under the agreement with Shanghai-based HD Biosciences Co. Ltd., the three partners will share the costs and risks of discovery
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Pier Paolo Claudio, a researcher at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, is traveling to Paphos, Cyprus, next month to present his work to personalize chemotherapy for cancer treatment. Claudio was invited to give the talk at the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in
Friday, June 6, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Vincent E. Sollars, an associate professor of biochemistry and microbiology at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, has received a $432,000 grant from the National Cancer Institute to research a cutting edge concept to fight cancer. The Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) will fund a
Marshall University computer science/information technology student Dylan Watson was selected as one of the first 8,000 Google Glass Explorers after entering (and winning) a contest about what he’d do if he had Glass. He got the idea for his entry after a real-life stumbling block. While working on a research project about autonomous vehicles at
Thursday, May 1, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The recent water crisis in Kanawha and surrounding counties put a spotlight on the quality of West Virginia’s rivers and streams. A wide variety of research at Marshall University is focused on many of the issues raised by the crisis, including how to detect contaminants in the region’s
Monday, April 14, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Two investigators from the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University will be traveling later this month to Sao Paolo to present their research at the World Congress on Endometriosis. The congress is held every three years and brings together scientists, clinicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals
Dr. Robin O’Keefe to discuss his findings in free talk on Monday evening Thursday, April 10, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Concerns about climate change and its impact on the world around us are growing daily. New scientific studies by Marshall University paleontologist Dr. F. Robin O’Keefe and colleagues at the La Brea Tar Pits in
Sugar Grove native to study deep sea vents through NSF-funded program this summer Monday, March 31, 2014 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University Honors College student Tuesday B. Moats has received an honorable mention in the 2014 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship competition. The Goldwater Scholarship is the nation’s premier undergraduate award designed to foster and encourage outstanding