TBS Student Selected as Yale Ciencia Academy Fellow

Denisse Vega-Ocasio will begin a year-long fellowship this week at the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development, which provides doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds opportunities for mentoring, networking, skills development, and science outreach.

From Sustaining a Concussion to Conducting Groundbreaking Brain Injury Research

As a young boy growing up in Somalia, Adnan Hirad suffered a concussion. Now - years later - he studies brain injury as an M.D./Ph.D. student in the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD Program. His recent UR CTSI-funded study shows that sub-concussive head hits may damage the midbrain.

UR CTSI-Supported Study Aims to Predict, Prevent Acute Kidney Injury

Acute kidney injury is often preventable, but we currently lack the ability to accurately predict when it will occur and to whom. UR CTSI researchers dug into longitudinal patient data to identify risk factors that can be used to predict and prevent this deadly and debilitating disease.

TBS Program Director, Members Recognized for Contributions to Community and Research

Timothy D. Dye, Ph.D., director of the UR CTSI’s Translational Biomedical Sciences PhD Program and two of the program’s new students, Hanna Murphy and Raven Osborn, received awards at this year’s convocation ceremony. They were recognized for contributions to science and the community, and dedication to diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism.

Strong Showing by CTSI-Affiliated Faculty, Staff, and Students at National Public Health Meeting

TL1 Training Program Director Tim Dye’s research group sent an unusually large delegation of its members to the American Public Health Association’s Annual Meeting and Expo last week. In all, 11 team members presented 18 oral or poster presentations.