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Primary Care is a Point of Intervention for Youth Facing Housing Instability
Janna Gewirtz O’Brien, MD, FAAP, a fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, leads a team in a secondary data analysis of Minnesota youth. The findings suggest that primary care could act as a point of...
Faculty, Research
Stem cells join the battle against COVID-19
As the coronavirus spreads relentlessly around the world, killing hundreds of thousands of people and infecting millions, billions of stem cells are being infused into COVID-19 patients suffering...
Pathology
Dr. Melissa Brunsvold Finds Preparation is Key in Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic
After completing her surgery training at Henry Ford Hospital, Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at the University of Michigan and working as faculty at the University of Michigan for four years,...
Impact Medicine
Dr. Lisa Anderson awarded a fellowship from the Meddata Medical School Outcomes Center
Congratulations Lisa!
Physiology
Helping Youth Understand COVID-19: Faculty Members Design Additional Informational Handouts for Kids
Biomedical Sciences faculty members, Drs. Anna Wirta Kosobuski, Richard Melvin and Glenn Simmons Jr. have created additional COVID-19 pamphlets for youth to help cope during the pandemic.
Biomedical, Duluth, Education, Faculty, Research
University of Minnesota Study Finds Three Anti-seizure Drugs Equally Effective for Severe Form of Epilepsy
There are three treatment options commonly used by doctors in the emergency room to treat patients with refractory status epilepticus, severe seizures that continue even after benzodiazepine...
Research
Duluth Medical Student Earns Alumna-Honoring Scholarship for Non-traditional Students
Tegan Carr, a first-year medical student at the Medical School’s Duluth campus, talks about how support from the Nancy I. English M.D. (‘92) Memorial Scholarship has encouraged her mid-career shift...
Alumni, Duluth, Students
U of M Musculoskeletal Researcher Hopes to Generate Novel Therapies for Osteoporosis Treatment
Osteoporosis, a condition that causes age-related bone loss, is nearly four times more common in women than men, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. One...
Orthopaedic Surgery
Subgroups within the LGBTQ population at greater risk for getting an eating disorder
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, while sexual and gender minorities have many of the same health concerns as the general population, they experience certain health challenges at higher...
Psychiatry
For Early Treatment of Mild COVID-19, University of Minnesota Trial Shows Hydroxychloroquine Has No Benefit Over Placebo
First randomized clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine to treat non-hospitalized adults with COVID-19.
Faculty, Research
U of M Team Examines the Protective Role of PDE5 Inhibitors During COVID-19 Infection
Bong Sook Jhun, PhD, FCVS, leads a team of researchers in examining the protective role that common PDE5 inhibitor medications might play during COVID-19 infection. If proven, these medications could...
Research
Dr. Mike Underwood ’09 Reflects on How His PhD Training Changed Trajectory of His Career
Mike Underwood, PhD, Branch Chief in CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health, may have first moved to Minnesota simply looking to earn a doctoral degree in pharmacology from the Department of...
Alumni, Spotlight
Dr. Marco Pravetoni featured on the Medical School website for his new COVID-19 vaccine approach
Read full article HERE
Pharmacology
U of M Musculoskeletal Researcher Hopes to Generate Novel Therapies for Osteoporosis Treatment
Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery studies the mechanisms that regulate age-related bone changes in women, focusing on protein phosphatase and enzyme histone deacetylase.
Faculty, Research
U Medical School Studying How to Protect Against Current, Future Strains of the Coronavirus
Geoffrey Hart, PhD, in the Department of Medicine, and Marco Pravetoni, PhD, in the Department of Pharmacology, teamed up to develop a universal vaccine and monoclonal antibodies to protect against...
Faculty, Research
MDT on Addiction Director Awarded $9.9M Grant to build Center for Neural Circuits in Addiction
This interdisciplinary center will bring researchers together to create tools for measuring and intervening in the neural circuits that addiction affects.
Addiction MDT
SCI faculty member explores the pathological mechanisms of chronic muscle disease
Muscular dystrophies are chronic degenerative diseases that can progress slowly over decades, and hence it can be difficult to decipher the pathological mechanisms at play.
Stem Cell
Dr. Richard Melvin to Study the Presence of COVID-19 on Duluth Beaches
Assistant Professor, Richard Melvin, PhD recently received funding from the Minnesota Sea Grant Program to monitor surface water near eight Duluth beaches for the presence of COVID-19.
Biomedical, Duluth, Faculty, Research
PM&R Dr. Farha Ikramuddin Discuss The Long-Term Health Challenges COVID-19 Patients Face
Dr. Farha Ikramuddin discuss the challenges she has encountered while leading the team to help COVID-19 patients recover with MPR News.
Rehab Medicine
Understanding the Psychological Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Young People’s Mental Health
Kathryn Cullen, MD, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has been researching psychological and biological sequelae of COVID-19 in adolescents with and without non-suicidal self-...
Faculty, Research