Research URMC to Test Stomach Bug Vaccine By URMC Communications Sep. 29, 2010 Starting this fall, University of Rochester researchers will recruit up to 90 local residents to help test a vaccine against norovirus, a common stomach bug long considered the bane of cruise ships, ...
Research Targeting Amyloid to Stop HIV By URMC Communications Sep. 28, 2010 Amyloid protein structures are best known for the troubles they pose in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Now researchers are trying to exploit their presence in a very different place – in semen – ...
Research Rochester Victory Alliance Welcomes 2 New Team Members By Karin Gaffney Christensen Sep. 21, 2010 Jason Roberts and Christopher Foote recently joined the staff of the Medical Center's HIV vaccine research unit.
Research UR, Monroe County Help Paint National Picture of Falling MRSA Rates By URMC Communications Aug. 10, 2010 National health care efforts to curb the spread of the dangerous bacterial infection MRSA seem to be paying off, according to new research published in today's Journal of the American Medical ...
Research Wilmot Cancer Center Explores Research Collaboration With Roswell Park Cancer Institute By Leslie White Aug. 10, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center’s James P. Wilmot Cancer Center and Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) today announced that they are exploring a regional scientific collaboration. ...
Research UR Discovers New Way to Boost Vaccines, Seeks Patent By Leslie Orr Aug. 3, 2010 As the medical community searches for better vaccines and ways to deliver them, a University of Rochester scientist believes he has discovered a new approach to boosting the body’s response to ...
Research Amid the Murk of ‘Gut Flora,’ Vitamin D Receptor Emerges as a Key Player By URMC Communications Jul. 6, 2010 Within the human digestive tract is a teeming mass of hundreds of types of bacteria, a potpourri of microbes numbering in the trillions that help us digest food and keep bad bacteria in check. ...
Research Despite Countless Changes, Original HIV Infection Lurks Within By URMC Communications Jun. 29, 2010 Scientists have been surprised to learn that, despite thousands of changes that viruses like HIV undergo in rapid fashion to evade the body’s immune system, the original version that caused the ...
Research URMC Receives $1.5M to Study Safety of Blood Transfusions By Leslie Orr Jun. 23, 2010 This week it was announced that blood researchers Neil Blumberg, M.D., and Richard Phipps, Ph.D., at the University of Rochester Medical Center, were among a select group of investigators nationwide ...
Research URMC Receives $15.5M for Live Virus Vaccine Isolation Studies By URMC Communications Jun. 15, 2010 This week, the University of Rochester Medical Center announced plans to begin a cluster of bird flu vaccine trials, many of which will contain live, weakened viruses and require participants to ...
