Research UR Medicine Conducting Numerous Alzheimer’s Treatment and Prevention Studies By URMC Communications Nov. 6, 2014 As one of the nation’s premier Alzheimer’s disease clinical research sites, UR Medicine is conducting numerous studies into experimental drugs that are designed to treat or prevent this devastating ...
Research Food 0, Sex 1 By URMC Communications Oct. 16, 2014 In a study that will probably elicit a collective “duh” from the average college student, researchers have discovered that male brains – at least in nematodes – are wired to ignore food so that they ...
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 ...
Research Research Seeks to Break New Ground in Understanding of Schizophrenia By Mark Michaud Sep. 30, 2014 More than $6 million in funding from the National Institute of Mental Health is supporting new research that could fundamentally alter the way we comprehend and, perhaps ultimately, treat ...
Research Satran, Founding Member of the Department of Neurology, Dies By Mark Michaud Sep. 23, 2014 Richard Satran, M.D., a professor emeritus with the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, passed on Saturday, September 20 at the age of 85. Satran was one of a key group of ...
Research Moxley and Thornton Honored for Myotonic Dystrophy Research By Mark Michaud Sep. 21, 2014 University of Rochester neurologists Richard Moxley, M.D., and Charles Thornton, M.D., have been recognized by the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation with an Outstanding Research Achievement Award. The ...
Research Gift Will Advance Research on Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 By Mark Michaud Sep. 9, 2014 A $1.25 million gift from Lilyan (Lil) and Albert (Alfy) Nathan of Florida and Michael and Sherry Goldberg of Chicago will support research on myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) at the University of ...
Research Researchers Identify New Rare Neuromuscular Disease By Mark Michaud Sep. 4, 2014 An international team of researchers has identified a new inherited neuromuscular disorder. The rare condition is the result of a genetic mutation that interferes with the communication between ...
Research Researchers Receive $3.4 million to Study Experimental Drug Combination in HIV By URMC Communications Aug. 28, 2014 Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and University of Nebraska Medical Center have received a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study an experimental ...
Education Medical Students Get Iced to Highlight ALS Research By URMC Communications Aug. 24, 2014 On Tuesday, August 26 at 6:15 p.m., medical students at the University of Rochester are taking the Ice Bucket Challenge. As they videotape the mass dousing, however, the students will remain in the ...
