Posts Tagged School of Medicine and Dentistry

The University has received a second patent for an implantable biosensor that can provide physicians with real time information on their patients’ health.

Given the widespread attention regarding the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa, four Medical Center faculty with expertise in viral infections field questions about the outbreak, the nature of pandemics, vaccines, and what a U.S. outbreak might look like.

University of Rochester research often has a global reach. And there is no better example of that than the work Timothy Dye, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is conducting in India with colleagues to assess hepatitis B among Tibetan refugees.

Blood-sampling studies led by comparative medicine professor and chair Jeff Wyatt are showing promising signs for the fish, for the once-troubled embayment of the lower Genesee — and, potentially, for the local economy.

Diana Lacona (right) buys potatoes from Erik Fellenz of the Fellenz Family Farm at the grand opening of the University Farmers Market in the Flaum Atrium of the Medical Center.

First-year medical students Bridget Hughes, Lindsay Wahl, and Sarah Nevarez were praised Thursday by Rochester City rescue personnel and School of Medicine and Dentistry officials for helping rescue two children and their father from the Erie Canal.