Directors appointed for new Division of Human Genetics

Two British researchers from Texas will direct the new Division of Human Genetics at the School of Medicine. Michael Lovett, Ph.D., and his wife, Anne Mary Bowcock, Ph.D., will arrive soon from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where both are associate professors. Lovett is in the departments of otorhinolaryngology, molecular biology and oncology, and Bowcock is affiliated with the departments of internal medicine and pediatrics.

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Pediatrician Joseph St. Geme receives prestigious infectious diseases award

Joseph W. St. Geme III, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics and director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, has received the 1998 Squibb Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America.

"Joe St. Geme is an outstanding clinician-scientist-educator," said Alan L. Schwartz, M.D., Ph.D., the Harriet B. Spoehrer Professor and head of pediatrics. "His deep commitment to understanding the molecular pathogenesis of Haemophilus influenzae disease in children will have a long-term impact on child health. We are delighted that his achievements to date have been recognized by the 1998 Squibb Award."

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Epstein-Barr

Samuel H. Speck, Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and of molecular microbiology, has received a five-year $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. The funding will support his studies of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes mononucleosis and several cancers.

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Physicians investigating new treatment for chronic heel pain

Orthopedic surgeons at the School of Medicine are testing an investigational treatment for heel pain that uses a technique developed in the early 1980s to eliminate kidney stones.

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