November 13, 2013
Atsuo Sasaki, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, division of hematology oncology, and David Plas, PhD, associate professor of cancer biology, have each been awarded a $100,000 pilot grant award from the UC Brain Tumor Center s Molecular Therapeutics Program.
November 21, 2013
UC research professor of medicine Rita Alloway, PharmD, has spent years working to update a 20-year ban on HIV positive organ donation and her efforts, along with those of dozens of others are being rewarded today with the signing of the HOPE Act into law by President Barack Obama.
November 25, 2013
Peter White, PhD, has been named the Rieveschl Chair of the new department of biomedical informatics at the UC College of Medicine and director of the division of biomedical informatics in the department of pediatrics and Cincinnati Children s Research Foundation. His appointment in Cincinnati will be effective Feb. 1, 2014, pending approval of the UC Board of Trustees.
November 25, 2013
The College of Allied Health Sciences student organizations are hosting a college-wide food drive through Wednesday, Dec. 4
November 20, 2013
The National Student Speech Language and Hearing Association (NSSLHA) is co-hosting the first fundraiser for Fluency Friday.
November 27, 2013
In October 2012, Cheryl Edmonds, 54, got news that changed life as she knew it. After experiencing some stomach pains, she was scheduled to have a CT scan done; her husband of 22 years and a retired police lieutenant, George, was having some continuing GI issues as well and needed to have a CT scan done too, so the doctor got them both in on the same day.
November 18, 2013
A group of hospitals and research institutions across Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky has formed a collaborative Institutional Review Board (IRB) agreement that will allow any of the six participating sites to serve as the IRB of record for human subjects research conducted across multiple participating study sites.
November 20, 2013
Sponsored by the Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training (CCTST), the forum "Acceptable Limits of Integrity: Responsibly Handling Pressures for Funding, Promotions and Personal Gain," will be held from 2 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, November 26, in the Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center Research Auditorium, Location R (the "R Building ), Rooms 3381-3383.
November 21, 2013
Since his arrival just two months ago, Richard Becker, MD, has been meeting daily with faculty members to build support for programmatic changes across one of the four institutes at UC Health and the UC College of Medicine.
November 6, 2013
Hoxworth Blood Center will be hosting the fifth annual Hero2Hero Blood Drive in honor of Veterans Day Monday, Nov. 11, through Wednesday, Nov. 13. Donors will have the opportunity to be a local hero by sending a piece of home to our heroic troops stationed in Afghanistan.