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Medical student organized walk to help fund brain cancer research
Website is in response to growing interest in nurses seeking to do research.
Study was led by Upstate pediatric gastroenterologist Aamer Imdad, MBBS.
The latest recognition for Steven Faraone, ADHD expert and SUNY Distinguished Professor, comes from Research.com, which also ranks him as 57th best scientist in the U.S.
Upstate is specifically looking for a minimum of 100 participants ages 12 to 17 for the two-year study.
Upstate's vision care team helps a child with cataracts and glaucoma
This is the first study to show the link between sugar alcohols and liver cancer, and the data also suggests these sugar alcohols could be linked to heart disease.
HCMV can significantly raise the chance of organ rejection, making its treatment crucial for those needing a life-saving transplant.
He begins his two-year term as the society's president in 2025. The society promotes collaboration among the various fields of stress research, international scientific cooperation, and public awareness
Hani Aiash, MD, PhD, led a team of more than a dozen researchers from around the world on this study.
The Graduate Research Empowering and Accelerating Talent award winners from Upstate are Akshay G. Patel, Nicole Maurici, Harsimranjit Sekhon.
Dr Roger Wong and Margaret Lovier, MPH, say sleep disturbances are a public health problem that needs to be addressed.
Jolene Kittle's early efforts in the job aimed at assisting nursing staff with publishing, presenting, conducting research.
Gargi Mishra was chosen by the AHA on the strength of her proposal to study the impact of the dysfunction of mitochondria in cells and how this can contribute to heart disease.
Study led by Dr Jeffrey Bogart found similar outcomes in once and twice-a-day radiation for small-cell lung cancer.
A resident, medical student and faculty members are honored for their ADHD research.
The EMZ Foundation aims to support outstanding investigators at the early stages of their careers who show innovation and promise in vision research.
Akshay Patel will use the funding to continue his work aimed at discerning the role played by a specific enzyme that is associated with the onset and worsening of lupus.
Since 1997, Paiges Butterfly Run has raised more than $4.5 million dollars in support of pediatric cancer care at Upstate Golisano Childrens Hospital and the Waters Center for Childrens Cancer and Blood Disorders at Upstate.
Study shows that ticks infected with pathogens carrying Lyme disease prefer to bite humans in different areas than uninfected ticks.
Peter D. Calvert, PhD, has been named the inaugural Hoepner professor
Patent for saliva test is awarded to Quadrant Biosciences, SUNY Research Foundation and Penn State College of Medicine, also a research collaborator.
Dr Samuel Herberg will study how and why trabecular meshwork cells in the eye react differently to stressors when an individual has glaucoma.
Olson will use the grant to address why the wiring of the fetal brain can be so deeply impacted by exposure to alcohol during development.
Tamara Jamaspishvili, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology, has been named a 2022 Young Investigator by the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
The severity of dengue can range anywhere from mild flu-like symptoms to life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever.
Symposium today celebrates 25-year commitment to the development of new and advanced treatments for blinding disease.
In addition to Paterson, the event will feature presentations from researchers across the country who will report on progress using genetics to improve glaucoma treatments, optic nerve injury, retinal disease, and other vision afflictions.
Study may uncover potential to fight the most common cause of illness and death for transplant patients.
Dr Sharon Brangman and Community Research Liason Kathy Royal, backed by a federal grant, are poised to make progress in ensuring clinical trial participants represent broad diversity.
Professor Joel Wilmore, PhD, will study the microbiome with an eye toward potentially creating more effective vaccines.
The group is looking to connect medical students who want to gain hands-on experience working with companies that contribute to the progression of medicine and science.
Upstate Golisano Childrens Hospital joins the Autism Care Network with other leading autism centers aimed at improving the health and quality of life for children with autism and their families.
Fragile X syndrome is a genetic disorder that occurs when mutations in the FMR1 gene cause the absence or loss of function of FMRP, a protein needed for brain development.
As there are currently no guidelines in the United States, the guidelines will address this critical need for health care providers, patients, and the public.
Tuch served as honorary co-chair of the Upstate Foundations campaign for the Golisano Center for Special Needs, which has raised more than $6.5 million.
Drs. Julio Licinio and Ma-Li Wong say the funding supports research at Upstate that strengthens the university's "standing at the forefront of neuroscience and psychiatry research.
As part of study, center hopes to monitor up to 100 patients to further assess benefits of the at-home monitoring.
In Kenya, the Upstate team engages in bedside clinical teaching and case-based learning.
Marie Bechler, PhD, is one of 13 investigators across the United States who received the prestigious award, given to highly promising, early career scientists to support research that may "lead to a better understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
Five-year pact promises joint biomedical, health systems research.
Computational neuroscientist Chris Gaiteri brings his expertise in computation and biology to studying Alzheimers disease to Upstate
Selection as MDIC Challenge team often is precursor to greater success for these medical device innovators
Ecuadors health minister expresses support for Upstates research in dengue and respiratory syncytial virus, two key areas of investigation at the site.
Jolene Kittle, PhD, RN, who currently serves as the trauma program manager for the Adult Trauma Program, will take over the position in September.
Grant comes from Hologic, a medical technology firm focused on improving womens health and well-being through early detection and treatment.
A study of women with BRCA1 gene mutation is underway
Upstate's Postbaccalaureate Research and Education Program, known as PREP-Up allows students to earn a salary, gain experience as apprentice scientists.
Individual and team awards and an award for contribution of the yearCovid Testing Initiativehonored the best of Upstate campus and clinical missions
Upstate researchers work on predicting whether breast cancer will metastasize
'This regenerative cell therapy approach has the potential to provide a single-administration, non-destructive alternative for the treatment of drug-resistant focal epilepsy.'
Experts share knowledge on vaccines, global health, infectious diseases, health care systems and COVID-19.
Mariano Viapiano is one of just over two dozen researchers from across the country to receive this honor in 2022.
Most cancers are not hereditary, but in some cases, genetics plays a role.
Various state associations honor department with award for Outstanding Leadership in Public Health in New York state.
This tissue network can complicate chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer
The relationship between dementia and Covid-19 was primarily explained by functional impairment, income, and residential setting.
Timely evaluations improve odds of cure and survival
Auyon Ghosh, MD, MPH, will look to identify possible genes, particularly from a part of the cell machinery called mitochondria, that could be associated with multiorgan sarcoidosis.
Brangman delivered the societys Henderson State-of-the-Art Lecture at the AGS 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting, held this week in Orlando.
The study by Dr. Chunyu Liu's research team will help improve understanding of biological mechanisms of schizophrenia
REaCH Organization contributes $20,000 in support of work of Satish Krishnamurthy, MD, and Frank Middleton, PhD,
Nneka Onwumere came up with the idea for the walk, which steps off Sunday, May 8.
Dr. Amy Caruso Browns Bias Checklist promotes self-reflection, educator development and quality improvement in education, while preventing the harm that comes when biased content reaches learners
The report by Michael Lax, MD, and Jeanette Zoeckler, PhD, of Upstate's Occupational Health Clinical Center, is the first study to examine occupational disease in the state in 30 years.
Medications and exercise recommended to prevent stroke in people with symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis over placing a stent in the blood vessel or doing bypass surgery.
The number of ticks sent to the Upstate lab as part of its citizen science program has skyrocketed with more than 30 percent found to be carrying Lyme disease.
International honors have been bestowed on Faraone before. In 2019, he was elected president of the World Federation of ADHD.
Currently, no large-scale studies have evaluated a clinical framework to assess and treat behavioral issues in autistic children and adults
Collaborators on the research were Upstate, Quadrant Biosciences, and Penn State College of Medicine.
It is a day to celebrate the research of postdoctoral associates.
'By analyzing the primary tumor gene expression, we can predict, with very high potential to be correct, whether this tumor metastasizes in the future, in ten years, in 20 years.'
Annual event is held at the CNY Biotech Accelerator
Article was published in BMJ Case Reports
Springtime sight bears resemblance to microscopic image
Overall, there was no evidence that probiotics had a clinically meaningful effect on any of the growth outcomes in children from high-income countries.
Young TV star who died after a seizure in 2019 is honored in Auerbach's grantThe CURE Epilepsy Cameron Boyce Foundation SUDEP (Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy Patients) Award.
In Central New York, medical centers like SUNY Upstate Medical University have been on the forefront of our COVID-19 response," Katko offered in his letter to Biden.
The study included 100 patients and was conducted over 150 days, between January and August 2020.
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