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Protea Biosciences Group, Inc. (“Protea”), a leading bioanalytics technology company, announces that Stephen Turner, the company’s CEO, presented at the 15th Annual Needham & Co. Growth Conference on Tuesday January 15, at the Palace Hotel in New York City. Mr. Turner will be discussing the Company’s groundbreaking LAESI technology platform and how the company is…
Yong Yang, an assistant chemical engineering professor at West Virginia University’s Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, is creating a system that mimics the human brain’s cell function to help unlock the clues to curing Alzheimer’s disease. It’s an in vitro system – an artificial environment occurring outside a living organism –…
After a 10-year career with the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, L. Clark Hansbarger, M.D., associate vice president for health sciences and dean of the WVU School of Medicine’s Charleston Division, will retire effective June 30, 2013. Chancellor Christopher Colenda, M.D., M.P.H., who announced the retirement, will appoint a committee to conduct a national search for Dr. Hansbarger’s successor.…
Patricia Chase, Ph.D., dean of the West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, has been selected as president-elect of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP). AACP is a national organization comprised of 129 accredited colleges and schools of pharmacy that represents the interests of pharmacy education. Dr. Chase will serve as the AACP 2013-2014 president-elect,…
Most expectant mothers take great care to nurture their bodies and avoid behaviors that could put their babies at risk. Prenatal smoking is a major public health issue throughout the Appalachian region, and more pregnant women smoke in West Virginia than in any other state. In West Virginia, 32 percent of pregnant women use cigarettes,…
Ronald L. Gross, M.D., a 1982 graduate of the West Virginia University School of Medicine, has been appointed chair of the School’s Department of Ophthalmology and director of the WVU Eye Institute. Dr. Gross has been on the faculty of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, since 1987, and holds the Clifton R.…