Education URMC Environmental Services Honored by ARC of Monroe County By Karin Gaffney Christensen Jun. 15, 2011 The Department of Environmental Services was honored with the Business Partnership of the Year Award for its contributions to the lives of people with developmental disabilities.
Education Doctor Who Wrote Syllabus on Cancer in Elderly Shares Personal Side to Data By Leslie Orr Jun. 2, 2011 When John Bennett, M.D., gives the B.J. Kennedy Lecture at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) on June 5th -- titled “Cancer and the Older Patient: Let’s Waltz Together” -- he will ...
Research A ‘Pacman Strategy’ to Boost the Immune System to Fight Cancer By URochester Medicine Communications Apr. 11, 2011 A molecule that lies dormant until it encounters a cancer cell, then suddenly activates and rouses the body’s immune system to fight cancer cells directly, marks the latest step in scientists’ ...
Research To Bring Effective Therapies to Patients Quicker, Use the Team Approach By Emily Boynton Mar. 2, 2011 The current clinical trial process in the U.S. is on shaky ground. In this era of personalized medicine, patient populations for new therapies grow smaller and smaller. Coupled with skyrocketing ...
Research A New Way to Attack Pathogens By URochester Medicine Communications Feb. 10, 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 in the journal PLoS ...
Research Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to Stop HIV By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 20, 2011 HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe ...
Education Industry Scientists to Discuss Drug Discovery Challenges, Successes By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 11, 2011 Several industry scientists who have been instrumental in discovering new drugs and vaccines will visit the Medical Center this semester as part of a new course on drug discovery.
Research NIH Gives $2M Grant to Nurture Golisano Children’s Hospital’s Researchers By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 29, 2010 Golisano Children’s Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) has been awarded a five-year grant for nearly $2 million by the National Institutes of Health, as part of the Child ...
Research Flu Vaccination Disparities Exacerbated by Supply Problems By Mark Michaud Dec. 6, 2010 The gap in flu vaccination rates between elderly whites, African-Americans and Hispanics is amplified when vaccine supply is limited or delayed. That is the conclusion of a study out today in the ...
Research Bacteria Seek to Topple the Egg as Top Flu Vaccine Tool By URochester Medicine Communications Dec. 5, 2010 Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Now scientists have taken an ...
