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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-WICHITA:

A National Cancer Institute grant totaling $200,000 was awarded to the KU School of Medicine-Wichita. The grant will enable internal medicine residents at the KU Internal Medicine Clinic and Family Medicine residents at the Wesley Family Medicine Clinic to participate in a multifaceted point-of-care nutrition and cancer education program designed to enhance their knowledge, skills and abilities needed for primary care practice. Principal Investigator Jon Schrage, chair and professor of internal medicine, said the four-year grant totals $1.5 million and will be shared by the Wichita campus, the University of Nevada-Reno and the University of California-Los Angeles.

EDWARDS CAMPUS:

Facilities management professionals will have the opportunity to stay abreast of the most innovative developments in the field with a new graduate certificate program offered by the Edwards Campus. The program is designed for facility managers, architects, engineers, interior designers, space planners and others engaged in managing and designing buildings and building complexes.

KU MEDICAL CENTER:

A KU Medical Center researcher's discovery could eventually be used to prevent anthrax infections from harming humans after exposure, according to a study published recently in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology Journal. The study is in collaboration with researchers from Harvard Medical School, the University of Missouri-Kansas City and William Jewell College. "From a drug discovery standpoint, understanding the molecular details of anthrax toxins are essential in eventually preventing anthrax infections from harming humans," said Mark Fisher, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at KU Medical Center, who led the research team. "Finding drugs that can prevent this structure from forming or blocking the transport of lethal proteins could prevent general anthrax toxicity and will serve as a first line-of-defense for people who acquire an anthrax infection."

KU HISTORY:

KU HISTORY: They're millions of years old, but they've been at KU for just over a decade. On Aug. 22, 1997, two 150-million-year-old camarasaur fossils arrived at KU on a flatbed truck. The fossils were unearthed during a summer-long dig in Wyoming. The fossils now reside in KU's Museum of Natural History. For more, visit www.kuhistory.com. For more, see www.kuhistory.com.