Mark Michaud

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Three URochester researchers in lab coats working in a research laboratory.

Health & Medicine

New platform combines precision gene targeting with brain-wide delivery

The platform overcomes a key obstacle to delivering gene therapies throughout the brain.

Health & Medicine

Researchers harness the body’s internal clock to improve stroke recovery

The findings could open the door to more effective therapies that help the brain heal after a brain injury.

Surgeons performing brain surgery in an operating room with computer screens around them.

Health & Medicine

New brain-mapping technology enhances tumor surgery at URochester

A new surgical platform called MindTrace helps surgeons predict and protect critical brain functions during tumor operations.

Maiken Nedergaard.

University News

Maiken Nedergaard elected to the National Academy of Inventors

December 11, 2025

The honor recognizes Nedergaard’s groundbreaking research over the past decade, which has fundamentally reshaped basic neuroscience.

Two people in a warehouse packing up medications and devices that are the result of neurological drugs discovery by the Center for Health + Technology.

Health & Medicine

How URochester is reshaping clinical trials for brain and nerve diseases

December 1, 2025

The Center for Health + Technology has become a model for getting new treatments to patients faster and more equitably.

An array of plastics and microplastics, from utensils to cigarette butts, against a white background.

Health & Medicine

Time to throw away the plastics in your kitchen?

URochester researchers on the growing concern of plastics exposure on human health.

Ting Du, wearing a white lab coat, sits at a desk and points to a computer screen showing yellow fluid as Doug Kelley looks over her shoulder.

Science & Technology

Cleaning up the aging brain

August 15, 2024

Rochester scientists are restoring the brain’s trash disposal system with a drug currently used to induce labor.

Marissa Sobolewski in a white lab coat stands at a computer station while looking at the camera and smiling.

Campus & Community

Marissa Sobolewski: Nature, nurture, and neuroscience

August 12, 2024

How Uganda’s chimpanzees have shaped the assistant professor’s research journey.

Close-up of fingers covered in tiny shards of microplastics.

Health & Medicine

Research hub aims to unravel health effects of microplastic pollution

The Rochester-based center will let researchers to investigate the interactions between plastic pollution, the Great Lakes environment, and human health.

Four prescription bottles tipped over and spilling out their respective medications.

Health & Medicine

Blood pressure meds clear the way for brain relief after trauma

November 15, 2023

library tower and city skyline illustrate the economic impact of the University of Rochester.

University News

Report details economic reach of the University

September 8, 2021

Latest analysis highlights the University’s role as a “critical engine” with an economic impact that has grown during the past decade and a half.

Two vials of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine against an out-of-focus background.

Health & Medicine

New study mismatches vaccine doses to boost immunity to COVID-19 and variants

The Medical Center is participating in a new clinical trial that mixes and matches the initial regime of an approved COVID-19 vaccine with a booster from a different manufacturer.