U. of Michigan Lures 25 Medical Researchers Away From SUNY-Upstate

Twenty-five heart-rhythm researchers are leaving the State University of New York Upstate Medical University for University of Michigan, Audrey Williams June reports on The Chronicle’s Web site:

The University of Michigan Medical School recruited a large proportion of the scientists, physicians, students, and research staff from a center at the SUNY medical campus in Syracuse, N.Y., to help establish a Center for Arrhythmia Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. The University of Michigan Medical Center already has doctors and researchers who focus on diagnosing and treating arrhythmia, a condition in which the heart beats too fast, too slow, or irregularly.

The 25 members of the New York group, who are affiliated with the SUNY medical university’s Institute for Cardiovascular Research, are expected to begin arriving in Michigan in January.

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