Community Face to Face: Paula Cupertino on Finding Community and Eliminating Health Disparities By Lydia Fernandez Nov. 6, 2020 As Wilmot Cancer Institute’s first Associate Director of Community Outreach, Engagement and Disparities, Paula Cupertino, Ph.D., came to Rochester knowing that she had big challenges ahead.
Research A life in neuroscience: Janice Wiesman, M.D. (1958-2020) Reflection by John Foxe, Ph.D. By URMC Communications Oct. 28, 2020 Janice Wiesman, M.D. (BS '80; MS '84) was a member of the first graduating class from the neuroscience undergraduate program at the University of Rochester. She passed away in August after a battle ...
Research A faculty send-off: A formidable researcher and student advocate By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 28, 2020 For more than 40 years, Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D., has produced highly respected work in her NIH-funded non-human primate research laboratory that earned her numerous honors and awards. During her ...
Research Batten Disease: Principal Project of UR IDDRC By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 28, 2020 The principal project of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center will focus on Batten disease, specifically CLN3 disease, also known as juvenile-onset Batten disease. The ...
Research A national nod to IDD Research By Kelsie Smith Hayduk Oct. 28, 2020 The effort to better understand intellectual and developmental disabilities and improve the lives of individuals and families impacted by an IDD diagnosis is at the heart of a decades-long ...
Research Fresh Faces, New Energy: Transforming Research at Wilmot By Leslie Orr Oct. 20, 2020 Wilmot Cancer Institute leadership has enlisted bright minds from across the nation to come here, to Rochester, as part of a team that pledges to defeat cancer.
Patient Care When Motherhood, Breast Cancer and COVID Collide: How One Local Teacher Persists Despite Challenges By Ruth Harper-Rhode Oct. 16, 2020 While every pregnancy is unpredictable, Colleen Molina had no idea the upheaval she was about to face. In February 2020, she found out she had breast cancer, mere weeks before her second child was ...
Research One Way to Prevent Cancer: Map the Fundamentals of How Cells Go Awry By Leslie Orr Oct. 8, 2020 Wilmot scientists focused on proteins involved in breast and brain cancer and melanoma, and made a new discovery.
Community URMC Unveils Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan By Chip Partner Oct. 7, 2020 The University of Rochester Medical Center today released its Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, a five-year effort to strengthen diversity and inclusion at the Medical Center, address inequities in ...
People School of Medicine and Dentistry Alumnus Harvey J. Alter Wins Nobel Prize By Emily Boynton, Sara Miller Oct. 6, 2020 Harvey J. Alter, M.D., received the award for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. A graduate of both the undergraduate college (1956) and the School of Medicine and Dentistry (1960), Alter is the ...
