UIC Department of Psychiatry

September 23, 2011

Dove and Fox Elected to 2011-12 UIC COM Executive Committee

Henry Dove MD and Geri Fox, MD, MHPE, FAACAP were elected to the Executive Committee for the UIC College of Medicine for the 2011-2012 academic term.

Ajilore to Receive ICGP Junior Investigator Award

Olu Ajilore, MD, PhD will receive the International College of Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology Junior Investigator Award at the ICGP’s 11th Annual Meeting to be held November 2-5, 2011 at UC-Irvine, CA. See: http://www.icgp.org/

Article in Book: Pinna Publishes in Anxiety Disorders

Graziano Pinna, PhD, Dr.rer.Med. published an article entitled, “Neurosteroid Biosynthesis Upregulation: A novel promising therapy for Anxiety Disorders and PTSD” in Anxiety Disorders (Vladimir Kalinin (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-592-1, InTech,  Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/neurosteroid-biosynthesis-upregulation-a-novel-promising-therapy-for-anxiety-disorders-and-ptsd.)

Presentation: S. Pandey Presents at ESBRA in Vienna, Austria

Subhash Pandey, PhD was invited to present on the epigenetic basis for anxiety and alcoholism at the 13th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) held on September 4-7, 2011 in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Pandey also gave a talk in a workshop on epigenetics and alcohol dependence at the meeting. See: http://www.medacad.org/esbra2011/

Harrow Study Referenced in Chronicle of Higher Education

Studies conducted by Martin Harrow, PhD and Thomas H. Jobe, MD of antipsychotic medications were referenced in a September 18, 2011 article in the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled, “Are Psychiatric Medications Making Us Sicker?” See: http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Psychiatric-Medications/128976/

Interview: Richman Interviewed by Reuters and UIC News about 9/11

A Reuters interview of Judith Richman, PhD, led to an article by Mark Egan entitled, "Decade after September 11, New Yorkers Ready to Move On," on the meaning of the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001. The interview was widely distributed by Reuters. She was contacted based on her NIH-funded research conducted when the events on 9/11/01 occurred, as well as her current NIH-funded research on the relative salience of varied macro level stressors, including the economic recession. For one source, see: http://560wgan.com/pages/10866933.php? She was also quoted in a September 7, 2011 article in UIC News entitled, “Ten Years after 9/11: How our world changed.” See: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/articledetail.cgi?id=15644. She was also listed as a “Quotable” in the September 14, 2011 UIC News referencing the Reuters story. See: http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/uicnews/articledetail.cgi?id=15663

Interview: Bell Interviewed on WBEZ 91.5 Radio about 9/11

Carl Bell, MD was interviewed on WBEZ 91.5 Radio’s program “Eight Forty-Eight” on the emotional aftermath from the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 on a segment entitled, “Coping with Grief in the Wake of Tragedy.” The interview can be streamed at: http://www.wbez.org/eight-forty-eight/2011-09-12.

Article: Liu in Nature Genetics

Chunyu Liu, PhD is a co-author on an article published by the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium Bipolar Disorder Working Group entitled, “Large-Scale Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Bipolar Disorder Identifies a New Susceptibility Locus near ODZ4” in Nature Genetics (September 18, 2011, doi:10.1038/ng.943) Electronic text of the article is available at: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.943.html

Liu Chairs World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics Symposium

Chunyu Liu, PhD recently chaired a symposium entitled, “Functional Genomics in Post-GWAS of Neuropsychiatric Disease” at the XIX World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics held in Washington, DC on September 10-14, 2011. Dr. Liu’s research group was also represented in two talks included at the conference: (1)  N. Cox, PhD, E. Gamazon, J. Badner, PhD, MD, Lijun Cheng, MD, PhD, Fabio Pibiri, PhD, Chunling Zhang, MS, Chao Chen, PhD, K. Grennan, E. Gershon, MD, D. Nicolae, PhD, BiGS Consortium, and Chunyu Liu, PhD were contributors on “Brain eQTLs and Function-based GWAS of Bipolar Disorder Identified Novel Disease Risk Genes;” and (2) Chao Chen, PhD, Lijun Cheng, MD, PhD, Fabio Pibiri, PhD, Chunling Zhang, MS, J. Badner, PhD, MD, E. Gershon, MD, and Chunyu Liu, PhD were contributors on “Co-expression Modules in Schizophrenia Postmortem Brains.”

Event: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Community Walk on Saturday, September 24

Event: The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is sponsoring the “Out of the Darkness Chicagoland Community Walk” fundraiser on Saturday, September 24th at 9am at the Busse Woods Forest Preserve, Area 4, Elk Grove Village, IL. For further information to donate or participate, see: http://afsp.donordrive.com/event/chicagoland.

CCTS Announces Fall 2011 Pilot Grant Program

The Center for Clinical and Translational Science announces the CCTS Pilot Grant program for Fall 2011. The grant is designed to provide funding for trainees, new investigators, and other researchers to increase the competitiveness of extramural proposals and the number of investigators motivated to conduct clinical and translational research. Pilot grants can be up to two years in duration ($30,000 each year, with second year funding contingent upon progress), with a focus on activities needed to prepare competitive NIH grant proposals. Required letters of intent are due by 12 noon, Friday, September 30, 2011. Read more at: http://go.uic.edu/CCTSPilotGrantRFA or contact Irene Ziaya at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

RFA for CCTS KL2 Scholar Program Due Oct 17

Applications for the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Scholars Award are due by October 17^th. This Award supports the research efforts and career development of clinician scientists dedicated to patient-oriented research. The award will support clinical research training and career development for individuals in clinical disciplines and professions. The entire contents of the RFA and the application can be found directly at: http://go.uic.edu/KL2.

NIH Internet Course: Intro to Principles and Practice of Clinical Research

CCTS reports that NIH will offer a free, non-credit course, “Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research” via the internet (live or through video archives) from October 17, 2011 through March 13, 2012. Certificate awarded upon completion. Registration is open at: http://www.cc.nih.gov/training/training/ippcr/info.html.

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