What if you were a scientist who wanted to investigate ways to counter a deadly virus, but the only way you could do so is if you created it? That was the question that circulated late last week when scientists […]
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Tim Yoho, D.P.M., FACFAS, dean of the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, and Vassilios Vardaxis, Ph.D., professor of physical therapy, worked with former CPMS graduates, current students and staff to publish studies in recent issues of three podiatric professional
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Recent research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association sounds like the perfect post-holiday gift to anyone who resembles Santa a bit more than prior to the season of celebrations: A review of 97 studies involving a combined
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The 2012 Des Moines University Research Symposium was held December 6, 2012. It was another successful year with a great turnout! This year the number of attendees kept steady at 152, the exact number as the previous year’s symposium in
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Thursday, December 7, marked another successful DMU Research Symposium. This year, in a new component, students competed in both the oral and poster presentations for best presentation. Oral presenters were judged on their submitted abstracts, and poster presenters were judged
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Many Des Moines University faculty members and students were recognized for their recent presentations, publications and awards. Faculty names are in boldface; DMU alumni are indicated with asterisks. Martin Schmidt, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and nutrition, and Michael Boyer,
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Four members of the Class of 2013 of DMU’s College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery (CPMS) earned honors for their recent poster presentations. David Rettedal and Vassilios Vardaxis, Ph.D., professor of physical therapy and CPMS director of research, received the
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The DMU Research Symposium is scheduled for December 6, 2012. The Symposium aims to recognize the research efforts of those in the surrounding community; to provide a forum for the collaboration of ideas and the production of new hypotheses; and
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Des Moines University students Logan McCool, D.O. ’15, and Justin Bloomberg, D.O. ’14, were honored with prizes for their outstanding poster presentations at the 4th Annual Global Health Fall Conference held at DMU on October 17. Twenty graduate and undergraduate
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