Research Sepsis on the Rise: Researchers Receive $4 Million to Search for New Treatments By URMC Communications Oct. 9, 2014 Sepsis cases are rising with our aging population, yet there are no specific treatments to stop the syndrome. Scientists from the School of Medicine and Dentistry and the Hajim School of Engineering ...
Research Researchers Pinpoint Gene Central to Brain Degeneration By URMC Communications Oct. 9, 2014 Rochester scientists believe they’ve found a gene that might have the potential to protect the brain from diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s, and filed a patent to protect the technology.
Residents and Rocks Motivate This Alum By URMC Communications Oct. 9, 2014 Len Fishman is kind and unassuming, and almost always is wearing a broad, contagious smile. “I love this phase of my life,” he said matter of factly. “I live simply and want for nothing.” His life is ...
Building donors come in all varieties By URMC Communications Oct. 9, 2014 Not all of the 120 donors who toured the new Golisano Children's Hospital building are individual donors. Many of them are groups of people who have banded together to raise money and name a space ...
Research Researchers Receive $4 Million to Study Common and Costly Cause of Death: Sepsis By Emily Boynton Oct. 9, 2014 A diverse team of immunologists, engineers and critical care clinicians received $4 million from the National Institutes of Health to study sepsis, an over-the-top immune response to an infection ...
Research Wilmot Scientist Earns Exceptional Investigator Award to Study Chemo-Brain By Leslie Orr Oct. 6, 2014 Michelle C. Janelsins, Ph.D., M.P.H., of UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute, has received an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the highest honor conferred by the National Institutes of Health ...
Patient Care Free Mammography Screenings Oct. 11 By Leslie White Oct. 6, 2014 UR Medicine Breast Imaging is offering free mammograms to uninsured and underinsured women from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 11 at two locations: at Highland Breast Imaging in Henrietta and at ...
Donors Get First Look Inside New Hospital By URMC Communications Oct. 3, 2014 About 150 generous individuals who have supported building UR Medicine's new Golisano Children's Hospital got a first look inside the new building under construction Thursday evening at an event in ...
Education Making PhDs More Employable: New Education Initiative Paves the Way By Leslie Orr Oct. 1, 2014 Preparing graduate students and post-doctoral trainees for jobs outside of academia is the goal of a new career-training program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...
A Fitting Tribute to a Man with a Perfect Smile By URMC Communications Oct. 1, 2014 Ready or not, life often presents unexpected, difficult situations that we don’t quite know what to do with. Like when Waterloo residents Mandee Rauscher-Woodring and her husband Kenny Woodring ...
