Archive for April, 2012

UMKC School of Medicine receives $400,000 gift to establish Pulmonary Fibrosis Research Program

April 26, 2012

The University of Missouri-Kansas City has received a $400,000 gift to establish a pulmonary fibrosis research program at the UMKC School of Medicine. The gift comes from the estate of the late Mary K. Geldmacher, a retired St. Louis school teacher who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and passed away in 2009. Pulmonary fibrosis is the […]

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UMKC and Saint Luke’s Awarded Federal Grant to Provide Training Program in Cardiovascular Outcomes Research

April 17, 2012

The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health to provide a postdoctoral fellowship program in cardiovascular outcomes research. The program will be based at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Instituteand is designed to meet […]

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