$10 Million Gift from ALSAM Foundation to support
construction of new pharmacy building at Fitzsimons
Louis Diamond, PhD, dean of the University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy, announced today that the school will receive a $10 million gift from The ALSAM Foundation, a Utah Trust, to assist with the construction of a new, 105,000 sq. ft. building to be located on the Fitzsimons campus of the UCD.

$1 million awarded to CU Cord Blood Bank
The University of Colorado Cord Blood Bank (UCCBB) has been awarded $1 million in federal funding by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to assist in establishing a national cord blood inventory of 150,000 cord blood units.

Cancer Center joins world’s first
collaborative lung cancer registry
With a grim overall five-year lung cancer survival rate of 15 percent, an international effort has been launched by Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) to potentially revolutionize the prevention, detection and treatment of the disease.

The Children's Hospital announces new president and CEO
James Shmerling, DHA, has been named president and CEO of The Children’s Hospital, succeeding Dori Biester, PhD, RN, who will retire at the end of 2006, after a distinguished career with the organization.

Heavy, chronic drinking can cause
significant hippocampal tissue loss
The hippocampus, a brain structure vital to learning and memory, also appears vulnerable to damage from chronic, heavy alcohol consumption. A study of alcohol’s effects on the hippocampus has found that heavy drinking can reduce total hippocampus volume, which likely reflects a loss of hippocampal tissue substance. The results of the study are published in the November issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

New hospital CFO
Anthony DeFurio has been appointed senior vice president for finance and chief financial officer for the University of Colorado Hospital, effective Dec. 2.
Currently, he serves as chief financial officer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics – a 760 plus-bed regional academic medical center, and one of the nation's largest university-owned teaching hospitals

Peter Coors is head of University of
Colorado Hospital Foundation
The University of Colorado Hospital Authority Board of Directors has appointed Peter H. Coors as chairman of the board for the new University of Colorado Hospital Foundation.

Bioengineering research targets
pulmonary hypertension in children
A new, multimillion-dollar grant awarded to the University of Colorado by the National Institutes of Health for the study of pulmonary hypertension in children will include the creation of 200 patient-specific computer models that will be used to help refine diagnosis and improve treatment of the life-threatening disease.

New findings mark step forward in
treatment of cancer, genetic disease
Researchers at the Churchill and Tyler labs at the University of Colorado Denver have made an important stride in the future treatment of cancer and genetic disease. Their findings will be published in the Nov. 3 edition of Cell.

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