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An accomplished cancer research scientist and leader at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, Vertino has been appointed senior associate dean for Basic Research effective Feb. 1, 2023.

U.S. and Zambian researchers and clinicians have building a decades-long partnership to address he neurological burden of diseases like cerebral malaria, HIV, and stroke in Sub-Saharan Africa.

To combat the region’s nursing shortage and improve access to health care careers, the UR Nursing Scholars Program will provide a tuition-free nursing education in exchange for a three-year work ...

The previously unknown component of brain anatomy, described in the journal Science, acts as both a protective barrier and platform from which immune cells scan the brain for infection and ...

A team of U.S. and German researchers engineered mitochondria that can covert light energy to chemical energy, power cellular functions, and extend life in the roundworm C. elegans. The findings ...

Minimally invasive heart surgeries carry less risk and have shorter recovery times, but a new study led by URMC researchers shows that Black patients have less access to these procedures and are more ...

Local K-12 students showed our Office of Health Equity Research what health equity – or the lack of it – looks like to them in a recent art contest. Contest entrants and winners were honored at a ...

Anirban Bose, M.D., wrote and directed, "Aye Zindagi," a feature film about a man in need of a liver transplant, and his deep connection to a grief counselor.

In a new study, the majority of individuals treated as children for Hodgkin lymphoma who are now in their 30s, showed signs of being an average of 7.7 years older biologically than their peers.

In her 20 years here, Director of Chaplaincy Services at Strong Memorial Hospital Rev. Robin Franklin has sat alongside many people through their worst moments. From comforting patients and families ...