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Notable contributions and programs

• TechTown, the Wayne State University research and technology park, is now home to Michigan’s first stem cell commercialization lab. The Great Lakes Stem Cell Commercialization Center positions Detroit and Michigan to assume leadership in research in this field of increasing importance to both the biomedical industry and pioneering clinical care.
   
• Jeffrey Stanley, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences in the School of Medicine, secured a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to track the development of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the brains of children and teens in the hope of developing more effective therapies.
   
• Wayne State University and Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) opened a new Clinical Research Center (CRC) at the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development. The center is part of a joint venture between WSU and HFHS. The CRC provides medical exam rooms, office space, a large procedure room to conduct intensive and interactive studies, trained coordinators, a pharmacy room and administrative support for investigators from all areas of the University and hospital system who are conducting clinical and translational research studies.
   
• Wayne State approved three academic programs that will help Michigan meet the technological and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Funded by a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Wayne State’s Electric-Drive Vehicle Engineering programs reflect a transformative shift in the automobile industry from petroleum-powered engines to renewable, resource-based, electric-powered motors. The new programs include a bachelor of science in Electric Transportation Technology, a master of science in Electric-Drive Vehicle Engineering and a graduate certificate program in Electric-Drive Vehicle Engineering, a subset of the master’s degree.
   
• Wayne State University athletics recorded a first in program history with all five spring sports teams qualifying for the NCAA tournaments in 2010. This unprecedented accomplishment sent the baseball, softball, men’s golf, women’s tennis and men’s tennis teams to tournament action in the same year.
   
• Through a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, Bengt Arnetz, M.D. will track Iraqi refugees in metropolitan Detroit who have been exposed to war in their home country to determine the effect of post-migration factors such as employment, language classes, and mental and social health services in mitigating stress and post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Arnetz is a professor in WSU’s Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences and director of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Health.
   
• Mark A. Lumley, professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and two others received a five-year, $3.3 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to study “Pain and Stress Management for Fibromyalgia.” Fibromyalgia afflicts 2 to 4 percent of U.S. adults, primarily women. Notoriously difficult to treat, it is marked by widespread muscular pain and tenderness, fatigue, sleep problems and mood disturbance. The grant will test three interventions: patient education, cognitive behavior therapy and a novel emotional awareness and exposure therapy.
   
• A Wayne State University School of Medicine neurologist has helped develop new national guidelines for stroke prevention adopted by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Stroke Association (ASA).The revised guidelines, the first since 1986, were co-written by Seemant Chaturvedi, M.D., F.A.H.A., F.A.A.N., professor of neurology and director of the Wayne State University-Detroit Medical Center Stroke Program. The new guidelines emphasize physical activity and decreasing obesity to stave off a first stroke. Those who follow the new recommendations can reduce their risk of a first stroke by 80 percent, according to the AHA and ASA. The preventive benefits increase with each change adopted. While the new guidelines contain recommendations for healthier lifestyles to prevent a first stroke, they also recommend that emergency room doctors try to identify patients at high risk for stroke and consider making referrals, conducting screenings or beginning preventive therapy.