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Medical Center Presents Prestigious Annual Awards to Top Staff URMC Board Awards Recognize 6 Individuals, 4 Teams Who Exemplify Excellence Medical Center Presents Prestigious Annual Awards to Top Staff January 24, 2011 Today, during the University of Rochester Medical Center Board’s annual meeting, Board Chair Ron Zarrella presented the 2010 Excellence Awards to some of […]
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Unexpected Find Opens Up New Front in Effort to Stop HIV HIV’s Trickery within the Macrophage Revealed HIV adapts in a surprising way to survive and thrive in its hiding spot within the human immune system, scientists have learned. While the finding helps explain why HIV remains such a formidable foe after three decades of […]
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Neuroscientist Robert Doty Dies at 91 Robert W. Doty, Ph.D. Robert W. Doty, Ph.D., a leading brain researcher who helped create what is now the world’s largest organization of neuroscientists, the Society for Neuroscience, died Jan. 14 at home in Rush, N.Y. He was 91. Plans for a memorial service to be held in the […]
URMC Orthopaedics Research, Clinical Work, Highlighted at Meeting Faculty Experts Discuss Bisphosphonates, Lead Exposure, Staph Infection The University of Rochester Medical Center Orthopaedics faculty made a strong showing last week at the Orthopaedics Research Society annual meeting Jan. 13 to 16, 2011, in Long Beach, Calif. Several researchers and clinicians attended and presented data on […]
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Researchers Unzip MRSA and Discover Route for Vaccine URMC Team Presents Latest Data at National Orthopaedics Meeting University of Rochester Medical Center orthopaedic scientists are a step closer to developing a vaccine to prevent life-threatening methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections following bone and joint surgery. Other MRSA vaccine research has failed to produce a viable […]
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Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon Golisano Children’s Hospital Fundraiser Set for Weekend before Valentine’s Day Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon Golisano Children’s Hospital Fundraiser Set for Weekend before Valentine’s Day Altruism Takes a Front Seat at Drive for Miracles Radiothon This Valentine’s Day season, Golisano […]
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University of Rochester, RIT, Tackle Need for Health IT Professionals Universities combine strengths to offer first joint degree The University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have joined forces to bolster two crucial elements of health care reform in the United States—the widespread application of information technology to health care and the adoption of […]
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Michael F. Kamali Named Chair of URMC Emergency Medicine Michael F. Kamali, M.D., associate professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, has been named chair of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Emergency Medicine after a 10-month national search. Kamali has been a faculty member at URMC for more than 10 years, serving in […]
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MMR Vaccines and Autism: Holding Science to Higher Standards as We Go Forward Since last week, media outlets have swarmed around allegations of faked data in the landmark 1998 study considered by many to have launched the decade-long autism-vaccine controversy. In light of this latest turn (you can read more about it, here), we spoke to autism […]
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Industry Scientists to Discuss Drug Discovery Challenges, Successes January 11, 2011 Several industry scientists who have been instrumental in discovering new drugs and vaccines will visit the Medical Center this semester as part of a new course on drug discovery. The class is being offered through the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and has a […]
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