Research More “Good” Cholesterol is Not Always Good for Your Health By Emily Boynton May. 24, 2010 We’ve all heard about the importance of raising HDL, or the so-called “good” cholesterol, and lowering LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, to improve heart health. While we’ve come to assume HDL cholesterol ...
Research New Website Designed to Boost HIV Vaccine Research Efforts By Karin Gaffney Christensen May. 13, 2010 The Rochester Victory Alliance (formerly University of Rochester HIV Vaccine Trials Unit) has launched a new multimedia website brimming with social media tools aimed at informing and encouraging ...
Research Genome Sequence Marks Big Leap Forward for Frog Researchers By URMC Communications Apr. 28, 2010 An African clawed frog has joined the spotted green puffer fish, the honeybee, and the human among the ranks of more than 175 organisms that have had their genetic information nearly completely ...
Research URMC Receives $4.5 Million in NYS Stem Cell Grants By Mark Michaud Mar. 25, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center has received a total of $4.5 million in funding from the Empire State Stem Cell Board for research in neurological disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, ...
Research Researcher Elected to Leadership Team of Bone Research Society By URMC Communications Jan. 27, 2010 Brendan Boyce, M.D., professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the ...
Research Eighty Healthy People Needed for H1N1 Flu Vaccine Studies By URMC Communications Nov. 25, 2009 Scientists are looking for 80 healthy people in the Rochester area to take part in studies of the same H1N1 vaccine that is currently being administered mainly to people at high risk and to health ...
Community Community Groups Join Together to Boost HIV Awareness By URMC Communications Oct. 21, 2009 The MOCHA Center and the Rochester Victory Alliance (formerly the University of Rochester HIV Vaccine Trials Unit) are the lead organizers with more than a dozen community-based organizations that ...
Research Experimental Approach May Reverse Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoporosis By URMC Communications Sep. 21, 2009 Researchers have identified a mechanism that may keep a well known signaling molecule from eroding bone and inflaming joints, according to an early study published online today in the Journal of ...
Research Enzyme Family Key to Future Treatments of High Cholesterol By URMC Communications Jun. 28, 2009 A research team at the University of Rochester Medical Center has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a new way to deliver proteins into human tissues, with a first ...
Research Some Eczema Sufferers More Prone to Smallpox and Other Viruses By URMC Communications Jun. 26, 2009 New research sheds light onto which eczema patients might be most at risk for complications from a smallpox vaccine.
