Alumni Party Cold Winter Meeting: HBMUOAA Alumni Party

Well, even though the weather was not cooperating, the turnout to the party was still impressive. It seems that we are going to have the "cold winter" party on an annual basis.

cai

>From zhengt@dce41.nci.nih.gov  Fri Jan  8 11:27:40 1999
>Subject: HBMUOOA news

Hi, everyone,

I would like to have this opportunity to thank you all for your nominations for our new HBMUOAA officials. Few things that I would like to mention here are as following: First of all, we had our HBMUOAA alumni party successful on Jan. 2. with about 20 alumni members showing up even though the weatherman's broadcasting was scaring. Dr. Zhi-Min Li, the First Secretary from Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. attended our party. Dr. Shuiqing Ye, Assistant Professor at John Hopkins University, was selected to be our President-elect based on our alumni's nomination during the party. The remaining other nominees have been passed to Dr. Ke Ren, Assistant Professor at University of Maryland Dental School and our present President, for consideration of his new HBMUOAA officials. We also decided at this party to short each term from two years to one year. This will allow more alumni members in future to have a chance to serve for our alumni Association.

Attendees of our Alumni Party on Jan. 2, 1999

     Man Chen                   John Hopkins University
     Li Qing                        NICHD/NIH
     Ren Ke                       University of Maryland
     Ye Shuiqing                John Hopkins University
     Zhang Liqin                 John Hopkins University
     Zheng Zhi-Ming            NCI/NIH
     Zou Shiping                 University of Maryland
     He Peijun                    University of Maryland
     Wang Yanlin               John Hopkins University
     Tu Jiancheng              John Hopkins University
     Xiang Jianing              Smithkline Parmaceutical Co
     Shang  Shizhang         Geogetown University

Members were not in the party due to the weather:

     Chen Huaxian            NIA/NIH
     Liu Yahong,              GTI
     Meng Xiangjin            NIAID/NIH
     Liu Zhifang                NIAID/NIH
     Wang Xuede             NCI/NIH
     Tian Hongsheng         NIDR/NIH
     Ho Wenzhe               Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
     Lai Jianping               Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia

Other news from our alumni:

1. Dr. Xianxin Hua at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, received two awards in 1998: NIH Howard Temin Award and Burroughs-Wellcome Fund Award. Each award offer him about US$500,000 to study TGF--induced transcription of the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 gene

2. Dr. Jianming Hu, Assistant Professor of Boston University, have received a grant US$300,000 from American Cancer Society to study hepatitis B virus replication for 3 years.

3. Dr. Xianxin Hua, The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Department of Biology,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published a paper in Gene and Development in Oct issue, 1998. The title of the paper is "Synergistic cooperation of TFE3 and Smad proteins in TGF--induced transcription of the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 gene. Gene & Dev. Vol. 12, No. 19, pp. 3084-3095, October 1, 1998

4. Dr. Zhi-Ming Zheng, National Cancer Institute/NIH, published a paper in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. in Nov. issue, 1998 through Track II submission. The title of the paper is "A pyrimidine-rich exonic splicing suppressor binds multiple RNA splicing factors and inhibits spliceosome assembly PNAS 1998 95: 14088-14093.

As a past president of HBMUOAA in 1997 and 1998, this is my last email to all of you for updating our current HBMUOAA events and our alumni's scientific progress. I would like to thank you all for your sincerely support and comments during my term. From now on, Dr. Ke Ren will be in charge and I am sure he will do a better job.

Zhi-Ming Zheng