A team of Virginia Tech researchers was awarded nearly $2 million from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease, part of the National Institutes of Health, to explore novel approaches for treating Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Type 2 diabetes affects more than 38.4 million Americans, with an estimated 1.
Diagnosing cancer today involves using chemical “contrast agents” to improve the accuracy of medical imaging processes such as X-rays as well as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
Mountainside Medical Center proudly announces the appointment of three distinguished individuals to its Board of Trustees: Sung T. Kim, M.D, James Mazza, chief of Emergency Medical Services at Montclair Ambulance Unit, and Joseph Ravenell, M.D. They will serve a minimum term of 2 years, effective January 1, 2024.
Today marks a significant milestone for Prendio and BioProcure, industry leaders in cloud-based eProcurement software and procure-to-pay support services for the life sciences sector, as they proudly announce the appointment of Eric Meizlish as their new Chief Executive Officer.
Cardionomic, Inc., a Minneapolis medical device company, is pleased to announce the completion of enrollment in both their STIM-ADHF and STOP-ADHF pilot studies.
The Lung Center at Mercy Medical Center is expanding to include Interventional Pulmonology (IP), essentially doubling the size of Mercy’s current Lung Center with greater access for pulmonary patients.
Hackensack Meridian Pascack Valley Medical Center Welcomes First Baby of 2024
Jane C. Edmond, MD, this week begins her one-year term as the 128th president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.
Binghamton University, State University of New York Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate M. Stanley Whittingham has been chosen as the joint winner of the $3 million 2023 VinFuture Grand Prize in recognition of his contributions to the invention of lithium-ion batteries.
After a long day, there’s the age-old question of do we eat out or stay in? Over the last decade, that answer has increasingly shifted to eating out.
Urology of Virginia announces that Dr. Joshua Langston has been elected Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, as of January 1, 2024.
The American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM), is excited to share that the Abstract Submission Application opens January 1, 2024, for the upcoming AANEM Annual Meeting.
Zymo Research, a leading provider of innovative life science technologies, has been honored with the Top Workplaces USA 2023 and Culture Excellence 2023 awards
The Korean artificial sun, KSTAR, has completed divertor upgrades, allowing it to operate for extended periods sustaining high-temperature plasma over the 100 million degrees.
The Radiopharmaceutical Therapy and Dosimetry Lab at Johns Hopkins Medicine, headed by George Sgouros, Ph.D., has been awarded a $15 million grant, to be dispersed over the next five years, from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Ochsner Health has been included in the 15th annual Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 ranking, which recognizes U.S. health systems setting the standard for supply chain excellence.
Vizient Southern States, a membership alliance for not-for-profit health care providers, awarded Jason Hill, MD, MMM, clinical innovation officer, Ochsner Health, the 2023 Brilliance Award as a result of being selected to present at the 2023 Connections Summit.
Lucy Heller believes language sample analysis difficulties can be measurably improved by automatic transcription or speech-to-text programs.
Rochester, Minn. (Dec. 22, 2023)- The American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) is excited to host the neuromuscular (NM) fellowship match again in 2024.
Rochester, Minn. (Dec. 22, 2023) - The American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM) and American Neuromuscular Foundation (ANF) are excited to announce Dianna Quan, MD, as the 2024 association and foundation president.
The Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has opened an Aortic Surveillance Clinic for the evaluation and long-term monitoring of patients with enlarged aortas, or aortic aneurysms, for whom surgery may not be necessary.
Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s Mary Sedarous, M.D., medical director of the ALS Center, was honored at ALS United Mid-Atlantic’s 2023 Annual Celebration with the organization’s Flame of Hope Award, recognizing research and innovation.
Rochester, Minn. (Dec. 21, 2023)- The American Neuromuscular Foundation (ANF), is excited to announce that Tyler Nelson, PhD, has been selected as one of the 2023 Development Grant recipients for his research project, “Analysis of a Novel Primary Periodic Paralysis SCN4A Mutation With Pain as a Major Phenotype.”
Rochester, Minn. (Dec. 21, 2023)- The American Neuromuscular Foundation (ANF), is excited to announce that Erika Williams, MD, PhD, has been selected as one of the 2023 Development Grant recipients for her research project, “Genetically Decoding Human Afferent and Efferent Autonomic Ganglia.”
Rochester, Minn. (Dec. 21, 2023)- The American Neuromuscular Foundation (ANF), is excited to announce that Mai Yamakawa, MD, has been selected as one of the 2023 Development Grant recipients for her research project, “Causal Genetic Variation and Transcriptomic Signatures of the Peripheral Immune System in the Central Nervous System Pathology of ALS That Are Conserved or Divergent Among ALS Patients and the Animal Models.”
Researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to identify novel cancer biomarkers and develop AI that can detect and predict aggressive prostate cancer to help avoid unnecessary treatments and their associated negative side effects.
Edward Vargo, Ph.D., professor and endowed chair of urban entomology in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology, was elected as an Entomological Society of America Fellow.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that a team led by Saint Louis University will receive a $5 million award as one of 6 teams chosen to advance to Phase 2 of the Convergence Accelerator Program, Track H: Enhancing Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities.
The Society of Women in Urologic Oncology (WUO) has named Amy Luckenbaugh, MD, assistant professor of Urology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to chair its Executive Board until Nov. 2025.
Lee Ann Liska, MBA, Chief Operating Officer and Interim Hospital President of Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), has been chosen to serve as the hospital’s president.
Wars, strikes, Barbie, politics and planets dominated the news in 2023, and Michigan State University faculty experts were on hand to add research-based science and scholarship to many of the top statewide, national and global stories of the year.
Women engineers at Sandia National Laboratories achieved significant recognition in 2023 from the Society of Women Engineers. These accolades included Advocating Women in Engineering, Distinguished New Engineer and 10 patent recognition awards.
A “Holiday Lights and Love Caravan” vehicle parade to provide holiday cheer for patients and staff.
Chulalongkorn University’s Assistant Professor Pornthep Lerttevasiri, from the Art Education Division within the Department of Art, Music, and Dance Education at the Faculty of Education, has garnered recognition at the prestigious 2023 Zhejiang Yunhe Wooden Toy Creative Design Competition.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute celebrated the opening of a $100 million, 55,000 square foot proton therapy center, the first treatment facility in central Ohio offering this highly targeted form of radiation therapy for treatment of complex tumors that cannot be removed through surgery.
C. Benjamin Ma, MD, a highly regarded orthopaedic surgeon and advanced imaging researcher, has been appointed as chair of the UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Ma will assume his new role on January 1, 2024.
The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) announced the development of a new modular construction method capable of building structures by assembling modular components within a short time, particularly in cases of emergencies or disasters
Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s bariatric surgery center is the first in the state to be accredited as a Comprehensive Center with Adolescent and Obesity Medicine Qualifications by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP®), a joint Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).
Ochsner Health Network, LLC (OHN), the Gulf South’s largest physician-led clinically integrated network, is pleased to report its 2022 – 2023 impact resulting from care delivered to nearly a half-million patients living throughout the Gulf South.
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it is accepting applications for the 2024 DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program to support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers.
Hackensack Meridian Health employees’ innovations aimed to improve clinical side of operations
A Binghamton University, State University of New York team is one of just 18 nationally that will share in $100 million in U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) funding from the Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate to accelerate the pace and scale of translational research.
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved funding for three projects focused on integrating scientific computing with user facility light sources.
JPEN was created to foster collaboration among nine higher learning institutions in the U.S. Central and Southern Province to address the root causes of incarceration, like recidivism, and inspire other Jesuit universities and colleges to start and sustain similar programs.
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)—an alliance of leading academic cancer centers in the United States—is celebrating six years of working alongside the African Cancer Coalition (ACC), the American Cancer Society (ACS), and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), as part of Allied Against Cancer.
Congratulations to the ‘B-Rabbit’, a team of Chula students from Sasin School of Management for winning the first place in the Family Enterprise Case Competition – Asia Pacific (FECC–AP), held on November 3-4, 2023.
AANS and CNS launch search to replace her as head of neurosurgery’s Washington Office.
Continuing its rapid and dramatic recruitment of emerging, top-tier researchers, Sanford Burnham Prebys has hired two more highly regarded early-career scientists: Angela Liou, M.D., a specialist in pediatric oncology and hematology; and Xueqin Sherine Sun, Ph.D., a cancer biologist and genome engineer.
American University won a cooperative research agreement from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Accelerating Research Translation program that will help AU foster greater use of evidence in the public and private sectors.
Alana Welm, PhD, director of basic science at Huntsman Cancer Institute, earned the 2023 AACR Outstanding Investigator Award for her groundbreaking contributions to breast cancer research which have led to transformative advancements in treatment.
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