| Albany Medical College Receives $4.6 Million Stimulus Grant |
| October, 2009 - Albany Medical College has been awarded a $4.6 million, two-year American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The grant will fund the College’s ongoing biodefense research against Francisella tularensis, the bacteria that causes tularemia. FULL STORY |
| Agreement Could Speed Clinical Trials of Anti-Obesity Agent |
| October, 2009 - The Albany Medical College and Aegis Therapeutics have announced an agreement designed to speed the development and commercialization of an anti-obesity peptide that could also benefit those with Type 2 diabetes. FULL STORY |
| Nobel Winner was 2008 Recipient of Albany Medical Center Prize |
| October, 2009 - One of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine announced Monday in Stockholm was honored here just last year with the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. 2009 Nobel Prize winner Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco shared the 2008 Albany Med Prize with Joan Steitz, Ph.D., of Yale University. FULL STORY ABOUT THE ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER PRIZE |
| Maura Mack Hisgen to Lead the Alumni Association at Albany Medical College |
| September, 2009 - Albany Medical College’s Alumni Association has appointed Maura Mack Hisgen executive director of its Alumni Association. Working in cooperation with the Albany Medical College and the Albany Medical Center Foundation, she is responsible for the overall management and operation of alumni relations at the Medical College. FULL STORY |
| Dr. Richard Blinkhorn Named Chair of Medicine at Albany Medical College |
September 2009 - Richard J. Blinkhorn, Jr., M.D., has been appointed chair of the department of medicine and Richard T. Beebe Chair of Medicine at Albany Medical College and Chief of Service for Medicine at the Albany Medical Center Hospital. FULL STORY
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