Source: Daniel Marcus, 785-532-4532, marcus@k-state.edu
Websites: http://www.k-state.edu/media/mediaguide/bios/marcusbio.html
and http://www.vet.k-state.edu/depts/ap/faculty/marcus.htm
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News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-2535, bbohn@k-state.edu

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

K-STATE'S DANIEL MARCUS TO SERVE ON NATIONAL BIOMEDICAL 1xbet online games login COMMITTEE

MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State University professor has been elected to serve on a national committee that seeks to elevate biomedical 1xbet online games login resources in Kansas and other states.

Daniel C. Marcus, university distinguished professor of anatomy and physiology, will serve a four-year term on the National Committee for the National Association of IDeA Principal Investigators. The 20-member committee assists the National Center for 1xbet online games login Resources, a division of the National Institutes of Health, in strengthening biomedical 1xbet online games login in 23 states -- including Kansas -- that are part of the Institutional Development Awards, or IDeA, network. The committee meets in Washington, D.C.

The association represents the principal investigators from each IDeA Network of Biomedical 1xbet online games login Excellence and Center of Biomedical 1xbet online games login Excellence, and is focused on elevating biomedical 1xbet online games login infrastructure in states with historically low levels of 1xbet online games login funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Marcus is the principal investigator for the K-State Center of Biomedical 1xbet online games login Excellence, based in the College of Veterinary Medicine. The center studies epithelial cell function in human health and disease. It supports individual 1xbet online games login projects as well as 1xbet online games login facilities for confocal microscopy, molecular biology and electrophysiology investigators across eight departments in five K-State colleges.

The center is beginning its ninth year of funding through a National Institutes of Health award of about million over 10 years.

Marcus is internationally known for his 1xbet online games login on the physiology of inner ear epithelial cells. Functions of these cells are essential for healthy hearing and balance.

He has received the Pfizer 1xbet online games login Excellence Award from K-State's College of Veterinary Medicine and has honorary membership in Society of Phi Zeta, Sigma Chapter, an organization that recognizes and promotes scholarship and 1xbet online games login pertaining to the welfare and diseases of animals. Marcus also is a reviewer for several professional journals and granting agencies.

Marcus joined K-State in 1998 as an associate professor in anatomy and physiology. He was promoted to professor in 2000 and was named a university distinguished professor, K-State's highest academic ranking, in 2006. His previous professional experience was at Creighton University, Washington University in St. Louis and Boys Town National 1xbet online games login Hospital. His master's and doctorate degrees are in electrical and biomedical engineering from Washington University, St. Louis. His bachelor's degree in physics is from Antioch College in Ohio.