February 7-14: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Congenital Heart Disease is considered to be the most common birth defect, and is a leading cause of
birth-defect related deaths worldwide.
CHD Awareness Week is an annual awareness effort to help educate the public about Congenital Heart
Defects. Participants include individuals, local support groups, national and local organizations and
congenital cardiology centers throughout the world.
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LifeScience Moment: Senator Matthew Neely proposed legislation offering a $5 million reward for a cancer cure discovery.
On Febrary 4, 1927, a decade before the National Cancer Institute (NCI)I was established, Senator Matthew Neely (D)
of West Virginia proposed a bill that would offer a $5 million reward for the discovery of a cure for cancer.
Senator Neely's "reward" bill did not pass, but it was among the first in a series of proposed legislation
that laid the groundwork for the 1937 National Cancer Institute Act.
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BioEvolution Posters
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It's a Small World
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Swine Flu
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Science Quote
"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
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Albert Einstein
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(1879-1955)
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The University of Iowa Research Park BioVentures Center is conveniently located on
Highway 965 near Interstates 80 and 380 and U.S. Highways 16 and 218. The Park is in the fast-growing
community of Coralville, about 10 minutes from the main UI campus of Iowa City, 15 minutes from commercial
airlines at the Eastern Iowa Regional Airport in Cedar Rapids and 10 minutes from charter and corporate aircraft
at the Iowa City Municipal Airport.
