Healing Through Scientific Discovery
Dr. Joshua Madsen
McCord Research Foundation Fellow, University of Iowa
Dr. Joshua Madsen is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Free Radical and Radiation Biology Program at the University of Iowa, and the recipient of one of three inaugural McCord Foundation Fellowships.
A native son of Waverly Iowa, Dr. Madsen received a bachelor’s degree in Biotechnology with a Chemistry minor from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Iowa in 2006. He served as research assistant in the department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University of Iowa in 1999 and 2000.
Dr. Madsen was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) pre-doctoral Training Fellowship in Virology in August 2003 and an NIH post-doctoral Training Fellowship in Dental Research in August 2006. His other awards and honors include the Vere D. Wenger Travel Award from the University of Iowa’s Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Levitt Center for Viral Pathogenesis Travel Award, the Molecular Biology Retreat Poster Presentation Award and the Supporting Outstanding Undergraduate Research (SOAR) Award.
Dr. Madsen’s research interests include skin cancer, wound care and the role of free radical damage in the skin cell aging process. His research has been published in the Journal of Virology, Current HIV-1 Research and Retrovirology.
Dr. Madsen is currently a fellow of the American Professional Wound Care Association. In 2004 he was a member of the University of Iowa Graduate Student Senate. Prior to that, he served as a member of the Biosciences Initiative Advisory Committee at the University of Iowa and a student representative to the Biosciences Admissions Committee.
Dr. Madsen is very pleased to receive the McCord Research Foundation Fellowship, as it will enable him to remain in his native Iowa with his wife and two children and dedicate himself to uninterrupted scientific research.
The McCord Research Foundation provides fellowships to post-doctoral researchers in the University of Iowa Biosciences Graduate School Program in the fields of Free Radical, Anatomy and Cell Biology.
Publications
Joshua M. Madsen & C.M. Stoltzfus
A Suboptimal 5´ Splice Site Downstream of HIV-1 Splice Site A1 is Required for Unspliced Viral mRNA Accumulation and Efficient Virus Replication 2006 Retrovirology, 3:10
C.M. Stoltzfus & J.M. Madsen
Role of Splicing Elements and Cellular RNA Binding Proteins in Regulating HIV-1 Alternative RNA Splicing 2006 Current HIV-1 Research, 4(1):43-55
Joshua M. Madsen & C. M. Stoltzfus
An Exonic Splicing Silencer Downstream of 3´ Splice Site A2 Is Required for Efficient Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I Replication August 2005 Journal of Virology, 79(16):10478