Research Despite Countless Changes, Original HIV Infection Lurks Within By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 29, 2010 Scientists have been surprised to learn that, despite thousands of changes that viruses like HIV undergo in rapid fashion to evade the body’s immune system, the original version that caused the ...
Research URMC Receives $1.5M to Study Safety of Blood Transfusions By Leslie Orr Jun. 23, 2010 This week it was announced that blood researchers Neil Blumberg, M.D., and Richard Phipps, Ph.D., at the University of Rochester Medical Center, were among a select group of investigators nationwide ...
Research URMC Receives $15.5M for Live Virus Vaccine Isolation Studies By URochester Medicine Communications Jun. 15, 2010 This week, the University of Rochester Medical Center announced plans to begin a cluster of bird flu vaccine trials, many of which will contain live, weakened viruses and require participants to ...
Research More “Good” Cholesterol is Not Always Good for Your Health By Emily Boynton May. 24, 2010 We’ve all heard about the importance of raising HDL, or the so-called “good” cholesterol, and lowering LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, to improve heart health. While we’ve come to assume HDL cholesterol ...
Research New Website Designed to Boost HIV Vaccine Research Efforts By Karin Gaffney Christensen May. 13, 2010 The Rochester Victory Alliance (formerly University of Rochester HIV Vaccine Trials Unit) has launched a new multimedia website brimming with social media tools aimed at informing and encouraging ...
Research Genome Sequence Marks Big Leap Forward for Frog Researchers By URochester Medicine Communications Apr. 28, 2010 An African clawed frog has joined the spotted green puffer fish, the honeybee, and the human among the ranks of more than 175 organisms that have had their genetic information nearly completely ...
Research URMC Receives $4.5 Million in NYS Stem Cell Grants By Mark Michaud Mar. 25, 2010 The University of Rochester Medical Center has received a total of $4.5 million in funding from the Empire State Stem Cell Board for research in neurological disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, ...
Research Researcher Elected to Leadership Team of Bone Research Society By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 27, 2010 Brendan Boyce, M.D., professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and director of Anatomic Pathology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been elected Secretary/Treasurer of the ...
Research Eighty Healthy People Needed for H1N1 Flu Vaccine Studies By URochester Medicine Communications Nov. 25, 2009 Scientists are looking for 80 healthy people in the Rochester area to take part in studies of the same H1N1 vaccine that is currently being administered mainly to people at high risk and to health ...
Community Community Groups Join Together to Boost HIV Awareness By URochester Medicine Communications Oct. 21, 2009 The MOCHA Center and the Rochester Victory Alliance (formerly the University of Rochester HIV Vaccine Trials Unit) are the lead organizers with more than a dozen community-based organizations that ...
