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Antoine Jerusalem of University of Oxford in the United Kingdom won an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's Healthcare Technologies Challenge Award for his neurology research.
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Walter Lowe, MD, is the chairman and professor of the department of orthopedic surgery at Houston-based University of Texas Medical School. Dr. Lowe is also the medical director of the Memorial Hermann IRONMAN Sports Medicine Institute. in Houston. He specializes…