For immediate release: Sept. 4, 2007
Contact: Anne McMillin, APR
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School of Medicine professor takes over as head of INBRE
Reno, Nev.— James Kenyon, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Physiology and Cell Biology at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, has been named Director of the Nevada IDeA Network of biomedical Research Excellence (Nevada INBRE), a program grant sponsored by the National Institutes of Health to develop research personnel and infrastructure to enable Nevada researchers to compete successfully for grant funding.
As director and primary investigator of the Nevada INBRE, Kenyon will oversee the numerous research and training programs that INBRE supports throughout the state. Programs supported by the INBRE include the Nevada Biomedical Students Pipeline to mentor freshmen and sophomore undergraduate students beginning studies in the biomedical sciences, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, research support for INBRE Research Faculty and state-of-the-art core facilities in bioinformatics, genomics, proteomics, biological imaging and cytometry. As a statewide project, the INBRE activities are supported at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; the Nevada Cancer Institute, Truckee Meadows Community College and the College of Southern Nevada.
Kenyon teaches medical neuroscience and directs research into the regulation of pain sensation. He joined the School of Medicine in 1987 and is currently a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology and the Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology graduate programs.
As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been meeting statewide healthcare, educational, and clinical needs since 1969. The School of Medicine encompasses 16 clinical medical education departments, including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics/gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, as well as five nationally-recognized departments within basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. As the largest multispecialty healthcare focus in the state, the School of Medicine employs more than 185 doctors who teach and practice medicine throughout Nevada. The school’s statewide faculty physician practice group has 25 different medical specialties with seven physician practice offices in the Reno/Sparks area and five physician offices in Las Vegas.
The University of Nevada School of Medicine utilizes a best-practice approach to medicine and is committed to addressing the health needs of Nevada now and in the future. For more information, visit medicine.nevada.edu.