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The Buffalo Niagara Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America has named Jacqueline Ghosen, assistant dean and director of communications, School of Management, president for 2010. John DellaContrada, senior director of media relations, University Communications, was named a delegate to the Northeast District Assembly.
Joseph P. Lane, director of the Center for Assistive Technology, School of Public health and Health Professions, recently published an article in Implementation Science, an open-access journal highly regarded in the field of knowledge exchange, transfer and translation. The article is titled “Translating three states of knowledge—discovery, invention and innovation.”
Morohunfolu Akinnusi, clinical assistant instructor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Brian Tsuji, assistant professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, won 2009 Aspire Young Investigator Awards in Antibacterial Research. The Advancing Science through Pfizer - Investigator Research Exchange (ASPIRE) program is a competitive grant program sponsored by Pfizer. Projects are expected to yield results that will advance the medical knowledge of linezolid’s role in the treatment of Gram-positive infections in post-influenza bacterial pneumonia. It is expected that results will be presented at scientific meetings and published in peer reviewed journals. Akinnusi’s research project is titled “Linezolid Modulation of Lung Innate Immunity in a Murine Model of MRSA Pneumonia”; Tsuji’s project is “Impact of Linezolid on MRSA Accessory Gene Regulator (agr) Profiling Pharmacodynamics and RNAIII.”
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