A cancer biologist's chance finding during a prostate cancer study has yielded promising results for diagnosing and treating asthma. This research could result in a new biomarker for asthma as well as novel therapies.
A nearly $600,000 NIH grant will fund the acquisition of a high-resolution 3D X-ray microscope at Creighton University. This will be one of the first laboratories in the country to focus this state-of-the-art technology on health sciences research.
The conference offers a unique interdisciplinary view of leadership. Participants will dialogue with panel experts on the challenges and changes in higher education, engage in small group work seminars and benefit from individual planning sessions.
New research from Creighton University College of Business professor and consumer advocate William Duckworth, Ph.D., released today compares technology protection plans from 12 different retailers, providing consumers with an easy-to-use reference guide for holiday shopping. The study comes just five months after Duckworth’s iPhone app for warranty shopping was released.
New study shows a compound produced naturally by marine algae, stimulated nerve cell growth and plasticity in cultured mouse neurons. This research advances a potentially new pharmacological treatment to aid recovery of brain function following a stroke or other traumatic brain injury.
Creighton University announces a new, fully-online bachelor’s degree for adult learners. The Bachelor of Science in Integrated Leadership provides adult professionals with an accessible, affordable and career-relevant education. Although select undergraduate courses have long been available in web-based formats at Creighton, this is the first fully-online bachelor’s degree program offered by the university. Applications are now being accepted for entrance in January 2013.
With several significant lead gifts totaling more than $47 million allocated to the College of Business, Creighton can seize the opportunity to expand its support for an enhanced learning environment for students and faculty.
In a recently completed study, the authors of several widely-recognized articles on politics and security returns challenge conventional wisdom regarding the association between security returns and political election results.
An extensive literature review and analysis of five clinical trials suggests that discontinuing long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) therapy in adults and older children who have asthma that is controlled with a combination of inhaled corticosteroids and LABAs may be associated with increased asthma-related impairment, according to a report published in Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication released Aug. 27. Thomas Casale, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Allergy/Immunology, Creighton University, served as a primary author of the paper.
Creighton University School of Medicine professor and researcher Devendra K. Agrawal, Ph.D., has been awarded more than $20 million in research grants to study coronary artery heart disease. This month he received a $3.12 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to examine the relationship between vitamin D status and the re-narrowing of the coronary arteries due to the uncontrolled growth of smooth muscle cells at the site of the coronary intervention.
The study is the first trial in the United States, and one of only two trials in the world, testing the effectiveness of Attention Bias Modification Therapy (ABMT) for PTSD. It is a straightforward, noninvasive, computerized program, making it a desirable alternative to existing therapies for PTSD.
A new program at Creighton University College of Business, College of Business Center For Insurance and Risk Management, give students an understanding of the industry that goes many times above and beyond that of most graduating business students.
Gone the Rainbow, Return the Dove, a personal look at war from the American Revolution to present-day Afghanistan, is an original play by Creighton University theatre faculty member Michael McCandless.
A new philosophical dictionary titled "Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition" offers precise, yet clear and understandable accounts of well over a thousand key philosophical terms.
A Creighton University School of Medicine researcher has received a $3.3 million grant to study what role adult stem cells might play in repairing damaged coronary arteries, following angioplasty/stenting.
As a continuing member of NOAA’s Environmental Cooperative Science Center , Creighton University will receive $400,000 over the next five years to focus on student training and research with an emphasis on coastal habitat mapping using geospatial techniques and remote-sensing imagery data.
Tu was one of only 11 researchers to receive 2011 funding from the foundation. The awards are made to investigators not previously involved in asthma research who are pursuing highly innovative, cutting-edge research to bring new understanding to and treatments for diseases of the lung.
Creighton University’s Hereditary Cancer Center, has received a three-year, $731,278 grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the role heredity plays in prostate cancer among African Americans.
Creighton University School of Nursing has received a $207,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to address the growing problem of type 2 diabetes mellitus in adult American Indians.
Sept 19, 2011, conference on “The Use of Human Tissue and Public Trust: The Chasm Between Science and Ethics,” an upcoming conference sponsored by Creighton’s Center for Health Policy and Ethics and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Research Integrity.
A Creighton University School of Medicine researcher has been awarded a $2.7 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate a possible link between the ingestion of tortillas and corn-based food products contaminated with a fungal toxin and increased risk for birth defects.
Women who have estrogen (ER)-negative breast cancer may have more drug-treatment options than previously thought, a Creighton University study suggests. The study is reported in the Oct. 11 online version of the journal Oncogene.
Creighton University College of Business students in the Master of Security Analysis and Portfolio Management program has earned a coveted spot in the D.A. Davidson Student Investment program. The students will have $50,000 to invest any way the choose.
Women who have gene mutations that put them at high risk of ovarian and breast cancer can significantly reduce the risk of developing or dying from these cancers by having their healthy ovaries or breasts removed.
The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in a nine-state region.
Creighton University Senior Patrick Carter felt there was nothing in Catholic social teaching that specifically talked about food. He spent a year researching and developing a just Catholic ethic of what to eat.
Creighton University will begin assembling a large array of solar panels and wind turbines at various locations across campus. When completed, the solar array will be the largest in the state. The alternative energy project will be part of a new degree program for students studying technology and applied science in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Creighton University places a remarkably high number of its graduates, 93 percent, into jobs or in furthering their education despite a challenging economy.
A new texting application called "My411," is helping high school students gather information about various colleges and universities. The students can use the free application to complete their “My411” profile once and then text it to colleges and universities of their choosing.
The November Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region, a leading economic indicator from a survey of supply managers in a nine-state area, slumped to its lowest level since May of this year.
Robert Garis, a Creighton University associate professor of pharmacy sciences who spent much of the last decade exposing costly and often questionable practices among pharmacy benefit management companies died Nov. 13 of cancer.
Creighton University is among the first eight institutions nationally to be recognized for “stellar” examples of vaccination mandates in a health care setting.
Creighton University has filed a patent for a novel, electronic program to coordinate patient health care – called eWellRx – that could help health care providers, patients and even companies improve health and reduce health care costs.
Creighton files a patent for a novel, electronic program to coordinate patient health care – called eWellRx – that could improve health and reduce health costs.
Creighton gets $1.4 million NIH grant to continue study of prion diseases. In 2007, Creighton researchers were the first to report that prion disease in laboratory animals could be spread by inhalation of the agent into the nasal cavity.