Research Students Take Center Stage at National Cardiology Conference By URMC Communications Mar. 11, 2010 More than a dozen Rochester physicians, students and scientists are heading to Atlanta this weekend for the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology. It’s one of the premier meetings of ...
Research Physician Calls for More Rigorous Standards for Drugs Up for FDA Approval By URMC Communications Mar. 9, 2010 A hospitalist at the University of Rochester Medical Center calls for more stringent Federal guidelines governing the approval of potential new drugs, in a commentary in the March 10 issue of the ...
Research Love of Dance Leads UR Medical Student to Garth Fagan By Leslie Orr Mar. 8, 2010 University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry student Tracy L. Fuhrmann was able to complete her education by combining two passions -- dance and medicine -- in a research project that could ...
Research Exploiting the Body’s Own Ability to Fight a Heart Attack By URMC Communications Feb. 25, 2010 Scientists trying to find a way to better help patients protect themselves against harm from a heart attack are taking their cues from cardiac patients. The work has its roots in a perplexing ...
Research Probing New Ways to Reduce Damage from Heart Attack, Stroke By URMC Communications Feb. 14, 2010 Two Rochester scientists are among the authors of a Nature Biotechnology paper that explores new ways to screen for drugs that might be useful for a range of conditions, including cardiovascular ...
Community New URMC Program to Focus on Health Behaviors By Mark Michaud Feb. 7, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center today announced the inauguration of the Healthy Living Center. This new initiative – which is part of the Center for Community Health – will offer clinical ...
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 Sleeping Beauty Hooks Up with Herpes to Fight Brain Disease By URMC Communications Jan. 8, 2010 Neuroscientists have forged an unlikely molecular union as part of their fight against diseases of the brain and nervous system. The team has brought together the herpes virus and a molecule known as ...
Research Rochester Neurologist Takes a Lead Role Tackling Charcot-Marie-Tooth By URMC Communications Dec. 30, 2009 Neurologist David Herrmann, MBBCh, associate professor of Neurology and of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is taking part in a newly funded nationwide ...
Research On mole rats! On M&M dye! On brain cells galore! Research retrospective for 2009 By URMC Communications Dec. 20, 2009 Here’s an informal wrap-up of some of the highlights, mainly in the research realm, during 2009 at the University of Rochester. Happy holidays!