October 12, 2020

In one of the first studies of its kind, a University of Cincinnati researcher is using a grant from the Ohio attorney general’s office to research the pharmacogenomics of opioid addiction. The grant was awarded to Caroline Freiermuth, MD, associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UC College of Medicine, the principal investigator for the study. The initial year will be supported with $1.63 million from the attorney general’s office, secured through money collected from pharmaceutical companies involved in opioid lawsuits. Pharmacogenomics, a relatively new field, is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs.

August 28, 2020

Kristin Weghorn, a lab supervisor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the UC College of Medicine describes the various research projects being conducted at UC around COVID-19.

November 24, 2020

University of Cincinnati researchers have discovered new clues into why some people with head and neck cancer respond to immunotherapy, while others don’t.

June 16, 2021

Rhonna Shatz, DO, discusses the spike in deaths from Alzheimer's during the pandemic on WVXU's Cincinnati Edition.

August 27, 2021

UC research examining a music app to help breast cancer survivors is mentioned by Forbes.

November 1, 2021

Christopher Jonathan Slack, MED ’24, knows the meaning of “medically underserved.”

August 30, 2022

A University of Cincinnati engineering professor and five of his students will receive a prestigious international award for their work studying ways to address water pollution. The Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water will be awarded to UC College of Engineering and Applied Science distinguished research professor Dionysios Dionysiou and his student research team.

June 15, 2022

A new botanical survey of southwest Ohio found that invasive species introduced to the United States over the past century are crowding out many native plants. They found that many species purposely introduced as landscaping plants are flourishing in the wild.

July 22, 2022

A chemist at the University of Cincinnati has come up with a novel way to study the thermodynamic properties of molten salt, which is used in many nuclear and solar energy applications.

March 17, 2022

Engineers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a promising electrochemical system to convert emissions from chemical and power plants into useful products while addressing climate change.