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Dr. Reza Ardehali, assistant professor of cardiology, Dr. Elissa Hallem, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Dr. Lili Yang, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, received NIH Director’s New Innovator awards for stem-cell and neuroscience research in medicine. The three scientists are researchers in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA.

Dr. James S. Economou (RES ’82, ’83), Beaumont Professor of Surgery and chief of surgical oncology, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine, among the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.

Dr. Tomas Ganz (MD ’78, RES ’81, FEL ’83), professor of medicine and pathology and co-director of UCLA’s Center for Iron Disorders, presented the American Society of Hematology’s 2014 E. Donnall Thomas Lecture in honor of his research in iron homeostasis.

Dr. Peter Lawrence, Wiley Barker Chair in Vascular Surgery, Bergman Chair of Vascular Research, chief of vascular surgery and vice chair of the Department of Surgery, was elected president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.


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  • The Life within Us
  • Friends in Deed
  • Screening Guidelines Miss Many Younger Post-menopausal Women
  • Brain Reboot
  • Heart’s Repair Process Points to New Treatment Strategy for Heart Attack
  • Neural Stem Cell Overgrowth and the Autistic Brain
  • Overcoming Resistance
  • Teaching Blood Stem Cells to Regenerate
  • Spinal Injury and Bladder Control
  • Today’s Lifestyle Choices May Affect Tomorrow’s Memory
  • Helping Young Lives Bloom in the Middle of the City
  • This Is Your Brain on Food
  • What Makes Us Fat?
  • Through Thick and Thin
  • Package Deal
  • Dr. Jam
  • Awards/Honors
  • In Memoriam
  • Fountain of Youth
  • In His Own Words: Erno S. Daniel, MD ’75 (RES ’78), PhD
  • A Tale of Two Brothers
  • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Receives Unrestricted $50-Million Gift
  • The Sounds of Gratitude
  • A Step and a Wave to Raise Funds for Operation Mend 25 Cents at a Time
  • Edie & Lew Wasserman Building Opens in Stein Plaza
  • Party On (the Pier)!
  • Art of the Brain Fundraiser Celebrates 15 Years
  • Crusading for Brain-cancer Research
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