Symposium honors Taubman project leader

Michigan Medicine’s October 3 cardiovascular symposium will include two Taubman Scholars among other featured speakers. The symposium, which focuses on the biology of cardiovascular aging and is dubbed M-BOCA, is named for Daniel R. Goldstein, MD, co-leader of one of the first Taubman Institute Innovation Projects. Known as ImPrec, the project aims to personalize anti-rejection…

Founding Scholar Honored with Professorship

The founding director of the Taubman Institute, Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD, has been honored with a professorship in her name, established by longtime institute benefactor Edith Briskin. Dr. Feldman, the James W. Albers Distinguished University Professor and Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology, is known internationally for her groundbreaking research and leadership across neurological…

Emerging Scholar Receives Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award

Emerging Scholar, Sami Barmada, MD, PhD, is one of six U-M scientists and engineers receiving the Mid-career Biosciences Faculty Achievement Recognition Award, which recognizes exceptional mid-career faculty in the biosciences. Dr. Barmada is the Angela Dobson Welch and Lyndon Welch Research Professor and associate professor of neurology, and the institute’s Danto Family Foundation Emerging Scholar.…

Taubman Scholar receives top faculty award

Taubman Scholar Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD, has been awarded a 2022 Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award by U-M’s Rackham Graduate School. Each year, five faculty members from throughout the university are selected for the award, which honors senior faculty who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors, have a record of sustained…

Dr. Charles Burant Re-appointed as Director

Charles F. Burant, MD, PhD, will lead Michigan Medicine’s Taubman Institute for an additional five-year term, announced Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, executive vice president for medical affairs and dean of the U-M medical school. Burant was first appointed in 2017, succeeding founding director Eva L. Feldman, MD, PhD. His second term will span 2022-2027. “We…

New findings about the immune systems of patients with lupus

Research supported in part by the Taubman Institute has developed new findings about the immune systems of patients with the autoimmune disorder lupus erythematosus. Investigators including Taubman Emerging Scholars Michele Kahenberg, MD, PhD, and Johann Gudjonnson, MD, PhD, note in a recently published paper that the normal-appearing skin of lupus patients contains the same inflammatory…