News Releases
November 09, 2015
When Jackson T. Wright Jr. MD, PhD, began practicing medicine in the 1980’s, physicians knew that the risks of high blood pressure were greater in African Americans compared to Caucasians. But what was not known was the dramatic difference in effective prevention and treatment strategies between the...
November 06, 2015
Hearing is made possible when hair bundles protruding from the tops of hair cells capture the energy of sound waves, converting them into electrical signals that stimulate the auditory nerve to the brain. These hair bundles are made up of individual hair-like projections, or stereocilia, which sway ...
October 19, 2015
A ϳԹ School of Medicine team received $2 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to study a combination approach to help patients stop smoking, particularly those who are socially and economically disadvantaged. The project involves partners...
September 17, 2015
A multicenter team led by ϳԹ has demonstrated that brief exposure to a targeted therapy can tell doctors which HER2-negative patients will respond — and which should switch to another kind of treatment.
If confirmed in clinical trials, the discovery would provide physicians inval...
September 11, 2015
Genetics researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine have identified a novel long non-coding RNA (lncRNA), dubbed DACOR1, that has the potential to stymie the growth of tumor cells in the second-most deadly form of cancer in the U.S. — colorectal cancer.
The researchers found that thi...
August 10, 2015
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $2.3 million to ϳԹ to lead a collaborative study of how changes in food options affect residents’ nutritional choices and health over time. Called the Future of Food in Your Neighborhood Study (dubbed foodNEST), the three-year stu...
August 06, 2015
ϳԹ scientists may have uncovered a molecular mechanism that sets into motion dangerous infection in the feet and hands often occurring with uncontrolled diabetes. It appears that high blood sugar unleashes destructive molecules that interfere with the body’s natural infection-contr...
August 04, 2015
ϳԹ scientists have discovered that a protein called Kruppel-like Factor 4 (KLF4) controls mitochondria — the “power plants” in cells that catalyze energy production. Specifically, they determined KLF4’s pivotal role through its absence — that is, the mitochondria malfunc...
July 23, 2015
An algorithm dubbed ENVE could be the Google for genetic aberrations — and it comes from ϳԹ.
Remember the World Wide Web before the famed search engine? The web offered extraordinary amounts of information, but no consistently reliable way to secure relevant results.
Cancer resea...
July 15, 2015
ϳԹ is one of three institutions nationwide to win federal ‘big data’ grants focused on developing ways to ensure the integrity and comparability of the reams of information the U.S. health care system collects every day. If successful, the work could create enormous new ...