Research To Bring Effective Therapies to Patients Quicker, Use the Team Approach By Emily Boynton Mar. 2, 2011 The current clinical trial process in the U.S. is on shaky ground. In this era of personalized medicine, patient populations for new therapies grow smaller and smaller. Coupled with skyrocketing ...
Research A New Way to Attack Pathogens By URMC Communications Feb. 10, 2011 Scientists have discovered a new way to attack dangerous pathogens, marking a hopeful next step in the ever-escalating battle between man and microbe. In a paper published in the journal PLoS ...
Research Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to Stop HIV By URMC Communications Jan. 20, 2011 HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe ...
Education Industry Scientists to Discuss Drug Discovery Challenges, Successes By URMC Communications Jan. 11, 2011 Several industry scientists who have been instrumental in discovering new drugs and vaccines will visit the Medical Center this semester as part of a new course on drug discovery.
Research NIH Gives $2M Grant to Nurture Golisano Children’s Hospital’s Researchers By URMC Communications Dec. 29, 2010 Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has been awarded a five-year grant for nearly $2 million by the National Institutes of Health, as part of the Child ...
Research Flu Vaccination Disparities Exacerbated by Supply Problems By Mark Michaud Dec. 6, 2010 The gap in flu vaccination rates between elderly whites, African-Americans and Hispanics is amplified when vaccine supply is limited or delayed. That is the conclusion of a study out today in the ...
Research Bacteria Seek to Topple the Egg as Top Flu Vaccine Tool By URMC Communications Dec. 5, 2010 Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Now scientists have taken an ...
Research URMC Marks World AIDS Day with Symposium, Events By URMC Communications Nov. 21, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center will present a symposium on the global state of AIDS vaccine research Wednesday, Dec. 1, in its Class of ’62 Auditorium. Nelson Michael, M.D., Ph.D., ...
Research Researchers Target HIV-Related Brain Difficulties By URMC Communications Oct. 6, 2010 During the last two decades, scientists and doctors have developed a potent mix of medications that nearly stops HIV in its tracks for most patients. But an assault in the brain continues despite ...
Research Researchers Study Afterbirth to Learn What Happens Before Birth and Beyond By Emily Boynton Oct. 3, 2010 Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center are forging ahead with an important first step in the National Children’s Study: Determining how to most accurately collect, preserve and ...
