Pioneering diabetes research earns UTSW scientist state’s top honor for medicine
DALLAS – Jan. 12, 2012 – Dr. Philipp Scherer, director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at UT Southwestern Medical Center, was recognized today as a rising star in Texas research by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST). Dr. Philipp Scherer Dr. Scherer, professor of internal medicine and cell biology [...]
Major variation in bladder cancer subtype trends highlights need for focused research
Wiley-Blackwell Researchers are being urged to differentiate between two types of bladder cancer when they carry out studies, after a detailed trends analysis revealed significant differences between the main subtypes of the disease. A major study of nearly 128,000 American bladder cancer cases, published in the January edition of the urology journal BJUI, shows that [...]
Will the LA Times Story Have a Chilling Effect on Education Research?
Could the LA Times‘ decision to publish teachers’ value-added scores have a chilling effect on school research? That question came to me as I read about a case in Arizona. Arizona officials are seeking the names of teachers and schools that took part in a study of the state’s policies on teaching English, even though [...]