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by Jackson Smith
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By Catherine Wolz
It
may eventually be possible to make chemotherapy treatment for non-small
cell lung cancer more effective and less toxic, according to results
of a study conducted by U.Va. cancer researchers and published in
the current Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
A research
team, led by Dr. David R. Jones, assistant professor of surgery
and a member of the Cancer Center’s thoracic oncology program,
identified a way of inhibiting a protein, called nuclear factor-kappa
B (NF-kB), which chemotherapy activates in lung tumors. Activation
of this protein helps make the lung cancers resistant to chemotherapy.
Jones’s research team discovered that inhibiting NF-kB
enhances the ability of chemotherapy to kill lung cancer cells by
activating the tumor cell’s mitochondria and “death enzymes,”
called caspases. Full story.
Former University rector appointed
to governor’s panel
By Matt Kelly
Gov.
Mark Warner, in an effort to remove politics from the college board
selection process, has named a seven-member panel to recommend higher
education appointments.
Warner’s
panel, which has a one-year term, will recommend candidates for
about 18 higher education boards across the state. Warner will select
his nominees from these recommendations.
Previous
governors have made appointments to college boards generally in
consultation with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. This is the
first time there has been a separate appointments panel. Full
story.
Senators OK plan
Casteen
to Faculty Senate:
• U.Va. likely to launch its next capital campaign of between
$3 billion and $5 billion within 18 months
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No layoffs planned
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There may be some form of salary increases in next two-year budget
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There will be no non-voting faculty member on the Board of Visitors
By
Matt Kelly
The
Faculty Senate last Thursday debated and approved the principles
of a new administrative procedure governing “for cause”
suspensions or terminations of academic faculty members.
A preliminary
draft was developed by the General Counsel’s office, in conjunction
with a Faculty Senate committee, to advise the provost. It calls
for faculty members to receive written notification of administrative
charges against them and an opportunity to meet with an administrator
to discuss the charges. The provost would make the ultimate decision
with the advice of a peer review panel. Full
story.
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