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Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Chemical Alliance Zone’s Chemicals and Materials Commercialization Fund has awarded $20,000 to a Marshall University scientist to help bring to market a technology he has developed for repairing skin injuries. The award to Dr. Jingwei Xie of the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR) will help Xie’s research team

Thursday, July 25, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Jingwei Xie, a senior scientist at the Marshall Institute for Interdisciplinary Research (MIIR), has been awarded a $293,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to lead a project to develop a technique that may improve surgical repair of rotator cuff injuries. The project will combine the expertise of two

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University biomedical sciences graduate student Kristeena L. Ray has been selected for the university’s Chancellor’s Scholar Program, an initiative to help ensure the academic success of underrepresented minority doctoral students. The program will provide Ray with a stipend of $10,000 per semester. In addition, she will receive mentoring and

Monday, July 22, 2013 [social_share/] HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Miaozong Wu of the Center for Diagnostic Nanosystems at the Marshall University School of Pharmacy has been awarded a $750,000 grant from NASA to lead a team of researchers investigating the muscle and bone loss associated with space travel. Wu’s three-year project was one of only 14 funded nationally