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July 14, 2015
Emil Hofman, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean, dies at 94
Emil T. Hofman, professor emeritus of chemistry and former dean of the First Year of Studies at the University of Notre Dame, died Saturday morning (July 11). He was 94 years old.
July 14, 2015
Graduate fellowships awarded for biomedical research at Notre Dame
Two students at the University of Notre Dame, each working on distinct technologies that could change the way cancer is understood and diagnosed, have been awarded the 2015/16 Berry Family Foundation Graduate Fellowships in Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics. Melinda Lake and Cody Narciso received the fellowships for their high-quality scholarship and the potential that their research could lead to significant improvements in Precision Medicine. Read more...
July 14, 2015
Notre Dame Researchers Work to Identify Mechanisms of Artemisinin Resistant Malaria
Notre Dame researchers, along with their collaborators, have identified a novel target of artemisinin that is crucial in understanding the mechanism of resistance in malarial parasites. These findings are reported in the April 30, 2015 issue of Nature. The team's results show that targeting PfPl3K will be vital to developing new therapies to combat artemisinin resistance.