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Boulder professor earns lifetime bioscience honors

Leslie Leinwand recently was honored with the Lifetime Achievement award by the Colorado BioScience Association for her contributions to Colorado's bioscience industry.

Leinwand, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the interim director of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome and director of the Colorado Initiative in Molecular Biotechnology (CIMB).

Leinwand led the initiative to begin CIMB and foster cutting-edge research, teaching and technology development in life sciences, physical sciences, math, computational sciences and engineering. She also co-founded Myogen Inc., a successful university venture that was acquired by Gilead, a biopharmaceutical company. Following the acquisition, she began Hiberna Corp., a drug discovery company that is studying the Burmese python in order to develop treatments to combat cardiac hypertrophy, or an increased thickness of the heart muscle.

Leeds School economist takes post at national organization

Economist Richard Wobbekind recently was named vice president of the National Association for Business Economics.

Wobbekind is director of the business research division at the Leeds School of Business and associate dean for MBA and enterprise programs at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

During his tenure with the association, he plans to develop its educational program and expand membership. Past officers of the association include Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the board of governors for the Federal Reserve System.

Cancer Center members among 2009 Best Doctors

Some 58 University of Colorado Cancer Center clinical members are listed in the 2009 Best Doctors in America. The list results from an annual peer-to-peer survey. The doctors who are members of UCCC are listed here.

Best Doctors was founded in 1989 by two Harvard Medical School physicians. The annual Best Doctors database relies on peers to identify respected doctors in their fields. Only 5 percent of doctors nationwide make the list.

Associate dean recognized by public health group

Jack Barnette, an associate dean for academic and student affairs at the Colorado School of Public Health, recently was recognized by the American Public Health Association Statistics Section for his "many years of service in public health graduate programs, his outstanding teaching in biostatistics and his important contributions" while serving on the association's action board and council from 2002 to 2004.

Barnette is a professor of biostatistics and informatics at the University of Colorado Denver. He also is a member of the National Board of Public Health Examiners and has consulted with public health programs seeking accreditation.

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