{"id":295,"date":"2011-03-07T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-03-07T17:11:14","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T01:11:14","slug":"distinguished-professors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/2011\/03\/07\/distinguished-professors\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Professors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a03-7-11<\/p>\n

OSU honors two medical\/health researchers with Distinguished Professor awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788; mark.floyd@oregonstate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Source: Sabah Randhawa, 541-737-2111<\/p>\n

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Luiz Bermudez, a professor in OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine, is a national expert on tuberculosis and similar diseases. (photo by Karl Maasdam)<\/p><\/div>\n

CORVALLIS, Ore. \u2013 Two Oregon State University faculty members have been awarded the title of \u201cdistinguished professor\u201d \u2013 the highest honor that OSU gives to its faculty \u2013 for their teaching and collaborative research in biomedical sciences and environmental health science.<\/p>\n

The honorees are Luiz E. Bermudez, a professor and interim associate dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Robert L. Tanguay, a professor of molecular toxicology in the College of Agricultural Sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe study of human health and disease prevention is one of OSU\u2019s most important and rapidly growing fields of study, and professors Bermudez and Tanguay epitomize the excellence and international prestige of our faculty,\u201d said Sabah Randhawa, OSU provost and executive vice president. \u201cTheir honors are richly deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Robert Tanguay, an OSU researcher in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology and the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute checks tanks of zebra fish. Tanguay uses zebra fish to examine the biological interactions of nanomaterials with biological systems. Embryonic zebra fish are particularly useful for studying the effects of nanomaterials on living organisms because they develop quickly, are transparent and can be easily maintained in small amounts of water. (photo by Lynn Ketchum, OSU)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bermudez specializes in the study of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of nearly $1 million \u2013 as well as numerous other research grants \u2013 he is pioneering the first new tuberculosis therapy<\/a>treatment in four decades. His research is critical: Tuberculosis is making a comeback around the world and infects about 8 million people annually, killing a quarter of them.<\/p>\n

Some new strains of tuberculosis have developed strong resistance to powerful drugs, which have been \u201cthe backbone of modern anti-TB chemotherapy,\u201d noted Bermudez, who also heads the Department of Biomedical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine. \u201cNow it is very common for a healthy person to acquire drug-resistant bacteria directly. In terms of public health, that is a nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bermudez has been on the OSU faculty for eight years and is noted for his teaching and mentorship as well as research. He also is a leader among national medical health researchers, chairing or participating on grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

Tanguay came to OSU in 2003 to direct the university\u2019s Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory, where he has created a world-class zebrafish<\/a>research facility. Tanguay and other scientists use zebrafish as a model organism to study environmental effects on human health. During the past year, he received the prestigious National Institutes of Health Director\u2019s Award of $2 million to build advanced robotics to automate zebrafish experimentation.<\/p>\n

\u201cA surprisingly large number of human diseases can be modeled in fish,\u201d said Tanguay. \u201cWith about 80 percent of genes in humans also present in these fish, they present an opportunity to better understand risks to human health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanguay is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Molecular Toxicology at OSU, and also is noted for his teaching and service as well as research. In addition to studying the effects of toxins at the molecular level, he is pioneering new approaches for drug and environmental chemical safety testing, examining mechanisms for regenerative medicine, and investigating the emerging field of nanotoxicology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a03-7-11 OSU honors two medical\/health researchers with Distinguished Professor awards By Mark Floyd, 541-737-0788; mark.floyd@oregonstate.edu Source: Sabah Randhawa, 541-737-2111 CORVALLIS, Ore. \u2013 Two Oregon State University faculty members have been awarded the title of \u201cdistinguished professor\u201d \u2013 the highest honor that OSU gives to its faculty \u2013 for their teaching and collaborative research in biomedical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2312,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2984,2887,2888,2774,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-08-senate","category-district-15-house","category-district-16-house","category-house","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2312"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/yourosu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}