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College of Medicine faculty take on editorial duties |
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Jim Winkler |
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Aug 10, 2007 |
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Editorial duties are keeping three faculty members in the College of Medicine’s Department of Physiology, Pharmacology, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Sciences busy.
Dr. Sonia Najjar, professor, has been named to a four-year term on the editorial board of Molecular Endocrinology, considered the premier journal in its field. Owned by the Endocrine Society, the journal publishes papers about research that uses a molecular approach to study regulation of hormones and related substances.
Najjar, a member of the faculty since 1995, was selected because of her demonstrated competence and achievement as evidenced by the quality of her research projects, publications in scientific journals and national reputation. She also has been invited to serve as ad hoc referee for the Health Research Board in Ireland, the country’s lead agency that supports and funds health research, and will review grant proposals.
Dr. Guillermo Vazquez, assistant professor, has been named managing editor of a forthcoming issue of the online journal Frontiers in Bioscience. The issue will focus on the role of canonical transient receptor potential channels, a novel class of calcium permeable ion channels, in cardiovascular disease. Found on the membrane of cells, the channels are minute pores that act as a molecular gate to help control the entry of electrically charged calcium into the cell. Calcium plays an important role in many cell functions.
The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on biology and medicine. Scientists are generally elected as managing editors because they are considered national authorities in their field.
An authority on the body’s cellular calcium signaling system, Vazquez, who joined the faculty in February, also has been awarded a four-year, $260,000 scientist developmental grant from the American Heart Association titled “Receptor Dependent Regulation of Calcium Permeable TRPC1 and TRPC3 Cation Channels in Human Coronary Artery Endothelium.”
Dr. Joana Chakraborty, professor, reviewed 12 abstracts for the fourth International AIDS Conference that will be held July 22-25 in Sydney, Australia. Last year, she reviewed more than 50 abstracts for an AIDS conference in Toronto.
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