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Cancer Center has new top administrator

Kochevar
Kochevar

Mark Kochevar, M.B.A., has joined the University of Colorado Cancer Center (UCCC) as its top administrator.

Kochevar, who will be the associate director for administration and finance, comes to the center from the Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center, where he led the administrative development and management of the newly established center.

"Mark has the proven chops to do this job, and he has an all-star team to lean on in our administrative core," said UCCC Director Dan Theodorescu, M.D., Ph.D. "He will have a lead role in taking UCCC to the next level as we develop a strategic plan and complete our National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center grant renewal."

Kochevar began his career at the National Cancer Institute, where he spent 17 years as an administrator for cancer treatment and causation programs. He then was the administrative director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, where he led the administrative process for the center's NCI P20 Center Planning Grant application, awarded in 1999, and its P30 Cancer Center Support Grant application. Kochevar also led a successful development of a Cancer Research Grant application under the Maryland Cigarette Restitution Funds Program.

"I am truly honored to have been selected as the administrator for UCCC," Kochevar said. "Building upon the strong foundations created under the leadership of Dr. Paul Bunn, UCCC is poised to reach new levels of success in its research endeavors while continuing to increase its presence in the Rocky Mountain region. I look forward to being a member of Dr. Theodorescu's leadership team as we develop and implement an ambitious strategic plan, taking UCCC to a new level in innovation and leadership."

Chemistry professor receives grant

Reed
Reed

Scott Reed, an assistant professor in the department of chemistry at the University of Colorado Denver, received a $395,000 grant from the NSF Biosensors program.

The title of the grant, "Collaborative Research: A Nanostructured Model of the Apoptotic Cell Surface," reflects that the project is a collaboration with Michelle Knowles at the University of Denver. Together, they will create sensors that mimic the surface of damaged (apoptotic) cellular membranes. They will study how the body recognizes changes in membrane shape to identify damaged cells for removal.

Sensors designed using this approach will be useful for understanding how proteins interact with curved membrane surfaces.  In turn, this will allow for the design of sensors that recognize physiological responses to apoptotic cells that could be critical in diagnosing cardiovascular disease.  

UCCS faculty members published

Four University of Colorado at Colorado Springs faculty members recently published books in their respective fields.

Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak and fellow communications professor Michael Hackman, and Sherry Morreale, assistant professor in communication, published "Building the High-Trust Organization: Strategies for Supporting Five Key Dimensions of Trust" (International Association of Business Communicators, San Francisco).
Sonja Tanner, assistant professor of philosophy, is author of "In Praise of Plato's Poetic Imagination" (Lexington Books, Lanham, Md.).

Dropping names ...

Goldstein
Goldstein
Simonian
Simonian

Bruce Goldstein, associate professor of planning and design at the University of Colorado Denver, is the author of two new manuscripts: "The Weakness of Strong Ties: Why Scientists Almost Destroyed the Coachella Valley Multispecies Habitat Conservation Plan In Order To Save It," in Environmental Management 46(2): 268-284, and with William Hale Butler, "The U.S. Fire Learning Network: Providing a Narrative Framework for Restoring Ecosystems, Professions, and Institutions," in Society and Natural Resources, 23(10): 935-95. ... Philip Simonian, M.D., professor of pulmonary sciences and critical care medicine at the University of Colorado Hospital, is one of four clinicians awarded a two-year grant from the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and the American Thoracic Society to fund research into pulmonary fibrosis (progressive scarring or thickening of the lungs). Each researcher will receive $50,000 per year to support their work.

 

 

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