Hao Wang, a biomedical sciences graduate student at the Florida State University College of Medicine, has published a manuscript in the October issue of PLOS ONE, an international, open-access, peer-reviewed scentific journal.

Wang's article, "The Role of LARP6 and Nonmuscle Myosin in Partitioning of Collagen mRNAs to the ER Membrane," was produced in the lab of Professor Branko Stefanovic.

 

 The FSU College of Medicine (CoM) has adopted policies for carrying out human subjects research by faculty, staff, students and others affiliated with the College. The policies establish a centralized, faculty-based review process for CoM-affiliated human subjects research. They were developed by a collaboration of department chairs and faculty members, with approval from the dean and the College of Medicine executive committee.

The internal review process is a necessary step approximately two to three weeks prior to submitting a new College of Medicine-affiliated human subjects research proposal to the FSU Institutional Review Board (IRB). IRB renewals and amendments are not required to go through the review process, only first submissions. In research involving external funding, the process will not impede or delay sponsor applications.

Information about the process

College of Medicine-affiliated investigators may access the review process via online submission using our SharePoint Intranet. You can access the intranet site with your College of Medicine user name and password by clicking on this link:

Online submission form

A step-by-step “user guide” for investigators on how to navigate the online submission system is located on the SharePoint Intranet site.
 

Biomedical Sciences Researcher Raed Rizkallah, Ph.D., and Senior Associate Dean Myra Hurt, Ph.D., received U.S. Patent 8,829,160 B1, for their work, “Antibody Biomarker Specific for Mitotic Cells and Related Methods,” which helps determine when a cell is in the mitotic state.

A paper from the lab of Associate Professor Daniel Kaplan has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The paper, "The Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase promotes Mcm2-7 ring opening to allow for single-stranded DNA extrusion and helicase assembly," was written by Kaplan and Assistant Scholar Scientist Irina Bruck. Both authors work in the College of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Sciences.

Nearly 150 eighth- through 10th-graders from five counties across Florida earned their CPR certification Jan. 23 as participants in the Florida State University College of Medicine’s SSTRIDE program. SSTRIDE (Science Students Together Reaching Instructional Diversity and Excellence) was developed in 1994 by Outreach and Advising Director Thesla Berne-Anderson to increase primary care physician talent in rural and underserved areas in Florida through classroom and after-school teaching.

Physician hopefuls from Leon, Gadsden, Madison, Okaloosa and Orange counties gathered in FSU’s Oglesby Union classrooms – a first-time college experience for some – to be trained using head-and-chest “manikins.” With the guidance of instructor Barry Hartin of the Southeastern School of Health Sciences, and hands-on assistance from the Leon County Emergency Medical Services team, students conducted chest compressions and breaths, used an automated external defibrillator and learned the Heimlich maneuver.

Eager to practice their new skills, students had such questions as whether they could injure someone inadvertently or whether they should check for a pulse before administering CPR. After completing the course, students received CPR certification from the American Heart Association to take back to their respective counties, where Hartin encouraged them to “go for it.”

Listen to an FSU Headlines interview with Thesla Berne-Anderson.