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January 4 – 17, 2014
Valley scientists honored as NAI fellows
Nonprofits win Community Grants
Frederic Zenhausern, Ph.D, MBA, has developed a rapid DNA processor and has a lab based partially in Chandler; and Dr. Gholam A. Peyman, who invented LASIK and many other advances—both from the University of Arizona College of MedicinePhoenix—have been named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Zenhausern’s Center for Nanobioscience is housed in the Innovations Incubator in Chandler. Election to NAI Fellow status is a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. The 143 innovators elected to NAI Fellow status represent 94 universities and governmental and nonprofit research institutes. Together, they hold more than 5,600 U.S. patents. Zenhausern is a professor and director of the Center for Applied Nanobioscience and Medicine at the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix. The center uniquely applies a combination of advances in nanoscience, microelectromechanical systems, molecular biology and genomics to a new generation of biological tools and sensors based on nano and microscale technologies. Zenhausern is also a professor at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert medical centers recently announced three organizations as winners of the 2013-14 Community Grants program, which awards grants to nonprofits whose proposal responds to the Dignity Health East Valley’s Strategic priorities identified in the community health needs assessment and the community benefit plan. This year, organizations were asked to come together to create a community of care made up of at least three entities, and submit cooperative applications with focus on improving transitional care after discharge from Chandler Regional or Mercy Gilbert; addressing continued care after discharge from Dignity Health emergency room or working to provide community-based intervention, prevention and education or management measures for diabetes, heart disease, congestive heart failure, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, infection and sepsis, mental health and obesity. The East Valley Holistic Family Care received $100,000. Members split the
Applying interdisciplinary science approaches to medicine, Zenhausern’s work is aimed at early diagnostics of human diseases, in particular, cancer, infectious and cardiovascular diseases. His team is developing platform technologies to translate molecular analysis into clinical tools and adoption of novel technologies for point-of-care diagnostics applications. Zenhausern has co-authored more than 70 scientific publications and is named on many pending and more than a dozen issued U.S. patents in various domains ranging from DNA sequencing to optical data storage. Zenhausern’s responsibilities also include leading clinical research at the personalized medicine research laboratory at Scottsdale Healthcare Research Institute and serving on several corporate scientific boards and international consortia in life sciences. Peyman is a faculty member at UA College of Medicine-Phoenix, professor of Optical Sciences and Engineering at the UA, professor emeritus at Tulane University and co-director of Arizona Retinal Specialists. Peyman’s most widely known invention of his 148 patents is LASIK eye surgery, a vision correction procedure designed to allow people to see clearly without glasses. Peyman’s inventions cover a broad range of novel medical devices, intraocular drug delivery, surgical techniques, laser and optical instruments, as well as new methods of diagnosis and treatment.
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funds, with the Chandler Education Foundation receiving $18,000; the Hope Community Health Center receiving $43,000 and $39,000 going to Southwest Behavioral Health. East Valley I-Help Coalition received $99,999, split evenly between Chandler Christian Community Center, Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest and Tempe Community in Action. The Senior Community Wellness Coalition received $82,276; with About Care receiving $22,000; Valley of the Sun YMCA/Ahwatukee receiving $18,000 and $42,276 going to Neighbors Who Care. “Our goal is to continue to improve community health through better access, prevention and education,” says Kathleen Dowler, director of Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert’s community integration department. “These awardees have identified unmet health-related needs throughout our community and we are pleased to support their mission.” To see a complete list of criteria or learn more, check out chandlerregional. org or mercygilbert.org.
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