From the Magazine A sort of homecoming August 6, 2024 An alumnus and his family chose the Medical Center for gene therapy after their son’s diagnosis with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Health & Medicine Rochester researchers pursue quick ways to detect COVID-19—and better understand it April 21, 2020 Nanomembranes, optical sensors, and blood analysis: Rochester faculty are turning previous research avenues to focus on ways to quickly detect novel coronavirus to speed treatment.
Health & Medicine University and area health organizations partner to promote COVID-19 prevention information April 7, 2020 Area health care providers and organization have partnered to create an informed community-wide campaign to amplify key messages about COVID-19 that local citizens need to know to stay healthy.
Voices & Opinion John Cullen on current two-year study of domestic violence reporting February 14, 2018 Researchers at the University of Rochester have now teamed up to study and improve technology that can show a bruising much faster on victims of domestic violence.
Science & Technology Rochester team casts light on a hidden problem in domestic violence cases January 18, 2018 While existing technology for detecting bruises works well for light-skinned victims, it’s less effective for people of color. An interdisciplinary team at the University of Rochester has set out to change that.
Science & Technology ‘Unconference’ stirs the pot of health care data October 7, 2016 This November, RocHD3: Rochester Healthcare Deep Data Dive will give both students and professionals the opportunity to discuss the structure, uses, and issues in health care data analysis in an 'unconference' format.
Science & Technology KL2 award helps researcher pave his career path September 8, 2016 David Auerbach's research is teasing out what links may exist between long QT syndrome—a classically studied genetic cardiac disease that causes arrhythmias—and epilepsy.
Science & Technology ‘Big Data’ generates need for ‘Data Diplomacy’ January 28, 2016 Part of Professor Timothy Dye's work as director of biomedical informatics is to combine global health with big data to improve the lives of people around the world. “But there is also incredible risk that this same data will be misused in ways that disadvantage communities and nations," says Dye.
Science & Technology New imaging technique helps predict how vision recovers after brain tumor removal December 10, 2014 An interdisciplinary team of University neuroscientists and neurosurgeons has used a new imaging technique to show how the human brain heals itself in just a few weeks following surgical removal of a brain tumor.
Science & Technology Kieburtz to Oversee URMC Clinical Research August 8, 2013 Karl Kieburtz, the Robert J. Joynt Professor in Neurology, is the director of the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics (CHET), a position he will retain.