UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 11, 1995
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Med Center research on the rise
one researcher's find may unlock mysteries of kidney problems
By Joann Birk
Kansan staff writer
After losing all kidney function and undergoing four unsuccessful kidney transplants, Doug Strickland is waiting for the phone call that could change his life.
The call will be from Billy Hudson, professor and chairman of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Hudson has spent the majority of his career researching problems related to kidney failure. In 1887, he discovered two molecules in a kidney membrane that may be key to understanding Strickland's illness.
Strickland has Alport syndrome, an inherited disorder which causes kidney
failure and deafness.
"It is very clear that people in this facility are doing
something right. "
Hudson discovered that Strickland was missing the two kidney molecules. Hudson still is researching what role these molecules play in Strickland's illness. His research also could give insight into the causes of other rare kidney diseases and the kidney failure of diabetics.
Robert Hemenway chancellor
major breakthrough," Hudson said.
"If the diabetic population can be affected too, this will be a
Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who spoke Friday at the naming of the new biomedical research building, the Ernst F. Lied Biomedical Research Building, said that research and the money it generated was crucial to the success of the University. Annual research financing at the Med Center has grown from $10 million in 1983 to more than $40 million in fiscal year 1994.
"It is very clear that people in this facility are doing something right." Hemenway said.
Hudson's work is one example of the importance of the Med Center's research.
The new executive vice chancellor for the Med Center and former surgeon general for the U.S. Navy, Donald Hagen, said he had heard praise for the Med Center across the country.
"Some of the nation's greatest research is coming out of these walls," Hagen said.
Research building named for benefactor
Kansan staff report
A new research building at the University of Kansas Medical Center was named the Ernst F. Lied Biomedical Center on Friday in honor of one of the University's major benefactors.
The 82,000-square-foot, $14.3 million building will increase the laboratory space at the Med Center by 30 percent.
The Lied Foundation provided a $1 million endowment, with a possible $500,000 match for support of biomedical research at the Med Center.
On the Lawrence campus, the Lied Foundation has given $1.5 million to the performing arts
program at the Ernst F. Lied Center, with a possible $500,000 more if the offer is matched. The Lied Center building was built with a $10 million gift from the Lied Foundation in 1988.
Ernst F. Lied, who died in 1980, attended the University of Kansas for two years and graduated from the University of Nebraska. His fortune was built from real estate investments in Las Vegas.
Christina M. Hixon, trustee of the Lied Foundation of Las Vegas, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Donald Hagen, the new executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, attended the ceremony.
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