Distingished Professors Show Why They Are Called Distinguished

Two of Oakland University's handful of Distinguished Professors showed this week why they are called "distinguished". Distinguished Professor Michael Sevilla, of the Department of Chemistry, and his team published another in a series of groundbreaking papers detailing the mechanism by which free radicals attack DNA, using the experimental technique of Electron Spin Resonance (Direct Observation of the Hole Protonation State and Hole Localization Site in DNA-Oligomers, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Volume 131, Pages 8614-8619, 2009). Distingished Professor Michael Chopp, of the Department of Physics, and his collaborators published three papers examining how the brain recovers from stroke (eNOS Mediates TO90317 Treatment-Induced Angiogenesis and Functional Outcome After Stroke in Mice, Stroke, Volume 40, Pages 2532-2538, 2009; Remodeling of the Corticospinal Innervation and Spontaneous Behavioral Recovery After Ischemic Stroke in Adult Mice, Stroke, Volume 40, Pages 2546-2551, 2009; Patterns and Dynamics of Subventricular Zone Neuroblast Migration in the Ischemic Striatum of the Adult Mouse, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Volume 29, Pages 1240-1250, 2009). Besides sharing the same first name, these two leaders of biomedical resaerch at OU share impressive records of productivity and scholarship. Both are currently funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health. To learn more about these two scientists, see recent OU magazine articles about Sevilla and Chopp.