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Events
Keeping Pace With AIDS - a walk/run/ride
Keeping Pace with AIDS
Date: 06/03/12
Location: Rochester, New York
Event type: 5k Walk, 5k Run, 20- and 50-mile Rides and Paws for the Cause. Click here to learn more...
24th Annual Buffalo Conference on Microbial Pathogenesis * May 4th, 2012, Ramada Hotel and Conference Center, Amherst, NY
Imaging Day April 5th, 2012 8:45-12 PM
As part of the URMC Imaging Day, the med center Flow Core will be hosting an Imagestreatm Afternoon. Join Darin Fogg, of Amnis, and the FCC staff in exploring this technology in more detail. Experts will be available from 12:30-3:30 to discuss your Amnis Imagestream needs, experimental ideas and how you can integrate this technology into your research program.
World AIDS Day December 1st, 2011
The UR Developmental Center for AIDS Research recognized World AIDS Day 2011 through a variety of scientific and community events. Click here to read more...
*Keynote Scientific Address
Ashley T. Haase, MD, Regents' Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota
“Lessons from the earliest stages of infection in the quest to prevent HIV-1 transmission to women”
*Scientific Symposium
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2011 Outstanding Scientific Poster Awards!
- Jharon Silva, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
- Meera Singh, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
- Daniel Marker, Center for Neural Development and Disease
- John Muchiri, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology
*A Benefit Concert held at the Hochstein Performance Hall
Believing the Dream - 11th Anniversary PeaceArt World AIDS Day Concert
Proceeds benefited Safe Sex, Inc. a student-run organization that is partnered with AIDS Care, the City of Rochester and the Metro Council for Teen Potential.
Headlines
New Fund Will Support Early Stage Drug Discovery
A new program, jointly funded by the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and the Moulder Center for Drug Discovery Research at Temple University, will help researchers identify and test chemical compounds that could be candidates for new drugs. Read the story...
Starve a Virus, Feed a Cure?
Feb 2012 - A protein that protects some of our immune cells from the most common and virulent form of HIV works by starving the virus of the molecular building blocks that it needs to replicate, according to research published online in Nature Immunology. The finding comes from an international team of researchers including scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center, NYU Langone Medical Center, several institutions in France – and a graduate student who is a political refugee from Africa and is now at work in a Rochester laboratory, intent on helping his people who have been devastated by the HIV epidemic. Read the story...
Scientists Explore Whether What Heals the Head Can Also Heal the Heart
A diverse group of scientists – experts in cardiology, neurology, immunology, microbiology and chemistry – are teaming up to study drugs that show promise in the treatment of dementia for the treatment of an equally debilitating disease – heart failure. In this case, the connection between the head and the heart lies in a particular enzyme that they believe plays a role in the development of both conditions. Read the story...
University Opens Multi-Million-Dollar Nanosystems Facility
August 2011 - University of Rochester officials joined U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter (NY-28) today to mark the opening of the Integrated Nanosystems Center (URnano), dedicated to researching and fabricating materials on a microscopic level. The new center will bring together experts in physics, optics, chemistry, biomedicine and bioengineering to expand the research and technology commercialization of fuel cells, biosensors and other high-tech devices important to industry, medicine, national security, and the economy.
URMC and Temple University Announce Drug Discovery Partnership
August 2011 - “This is a perfect marriage of the world class drug discovery and medicinal chemistry programs of Temple University with the strong biomedical expertise of URMC and its faculty,” said Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D., Director of the Developmental Center of AIDS Research and Chair of the URMC Department of Microbiology and Immunology. “I am excited by the opportunities this creates to explore innovative therapeutic approaches and targets.” Read the story...
D-CFAR co-Director Dr. Michael Keefer Announced as HVTN Network Award Winner
On June 3rd 2011 the HVTN honored individuals who perform outstanding work at their sites. This year's HVTN Mentoring Award recipient, Dr. Michael Keefer, was recognized for his extraordinary commitment as a mentor. "Dr. Keefer enthusiastically promotes HIV research at multiple levels, with critical attention and genuine support at the personal level. His sincere nature in which he works with others to promote their individual growth makes him an outstanding mentor. This has been evident in the relationships he has developed with individuals involved with community outreach, clinical fellows, graduate students, and faculty members and their personal growth."
A New Way to Attack Pathogens
February 2011 - Scientists have discovered a new way to attack 
dangerous pathogens, marking a hopeful next step in the ever-escalating battle between man and microbe.
In a paper published online in the journal PloS Pathogens, scientists demonstrate that by stopping bacteria's ability to degrade RNA - a "housekeeping" process crucial to their ability to thrive - scientists were able to stop methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA both in the laboratory and in infected mice. Read the story...
Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to 
Stop HIV
January 2011 - URMC scientists have learned that HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of research - more than 30 million people worldwide are infected with HIV - it also offers scientists a new, unexpected way to try and stop the virus. Read the story...
Rochester Honors Two with Presidential Diversity Awards
January 2011 - The Department of Microbiology and Immunology, led by chair Stephen Dewhurst, and the undergraduate student group University of Rochester Genocide Intervention (URGI) have been named the 2011 Presidential Diversity Award recipients. They were both honored at a reception hosted by President Seligman on Wednesday evening and will be publicly recognized at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 21, as part of the University's Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address in Strong Auditorium.
Both awardees were chosen for their "exemplary contributions to the University's diversity and inclusion efforts." The Department of Microbiology and Immunology was praised for its commitment to mentoring minority students while URGI was recognized for its success at increasing meaningful campus dialogue about diversity through creative programming.
World AIDS Day 2010 - WXXI-TV's Need to Know Interview with Dr. Michael Keefer
Researchers Target HIV-Related Brain Difficulties
October 2010 - Neurologist Harris A. "Handy" Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D., leads a team of scientist at URMC intent on developing the world's first treatment designed specifically to prevent or ease the neurological effects of HIV. Read the story...
Targeting Amyloid to Stop HIV
September 2010 -Amyloid protein structures are best known for the troubles they pose in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Now researchers are trying to exploit their presence in a very different place – in semen – to find a new way to stop HIV.
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