Research Keeping Mentally Ill Out of Jail and in Treatment: Rochester Model Works in Breakthrough Study By Christine Roth Jun. 1, 2017 A Rochester intervention called R-FACT, developed and tested by URMC professor of Psychiatry J. Steven Lamberti, M.D., and his research team, is the first of its kind in the country to prove its ...
Patient Care Wilmot’s Rising Stars, Veterans, Bring Know-how to Oncology Peers By Leslie Orr May. 31, 2017 Two junior researchers at the Wilmot Cancer Institute —a post-doctoral associate and a fellow—each won merit awards from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and will be among the ...
Research Study reveals potential target for drug development for better control of dental pain By URMC Communications May. 28, 2017 A recent study from UR Medicine’s Eastman Institute for Oral Health published in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR) is challenging a longstanding hydrodynamic theory that states environment ...
Research Fitting Years into Minutes: Announcing the Three Minute Thesis Competition Winners By URMC Communications May. 26, 2017 Watch the top presentations from this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition at the University of Rochester. The competition pushes graduate students to boil years of research into a three minute ...
Research Cancer Biology, thanks to Green Lizards By URMC Communications May. 26, 2017 What can green lizards and “dark matter” teach us about cancer?
Research Study: A New Way to Slow Cancer Cell Growth By Emily Boynton May. 25, 2017 By removing a specific protein from cells, researchers were able to slow cell growth and division, which is out of control in cancer.
Patient Care Children's Hospital Miracle Luncheon Celebrates Patients and Supporters By URMC Communications May. 25, 2017 UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital will honor five children who have defied the odds and pay tribute to several supporters who have gone above and beyond at the annual Celebration of Miracles ...
Patient Care UR Medicine’s Flaum Eye Institute First in Region to Offer Procedure for Near Vision Loss By Leslie White May. 24, 2017 Flaum Eye Institute’s Scott MacRae, M.D., an international leader in LASIK vision correction, is the first in the Finger Lakes region to provide the Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, which treats ...
Research Musculoskeletal Researchers Engage Local Under-Represented Students in Science By URMC Communications May. 24, 2017 Students and faculty in the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at URMC have been teaching, and learning from, under-represented and economically disadvantaged teens in Rochester. Their new science ...
Patient Care Gene Study Points Researchers toward New Pathway for Leukemia By Lydia Fernandez May. 18, 2017 Leukemia is one of the hardest cancers to treat, but scientists have discovered a new, targetable pathway in one of the worst subtypes of the disease.
