November 7, 2022
The University of Cincinnati is part of a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study a strategy to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. The trial will incorporate the use of an app on Apple Watch to monitor an irregular heartbeat to reduce patients’ reliance on blood-thinning medication.
June 5, 2020
Hundreds gathered on the UC Academic Health Center campus June 5 to silently protest the death of George Floyd and many others at the hands of police.
December 11, 2020
Matthew de Gannes is one of 38 students in the College of Medicine who will earn degrees during the virtual 2020 fall commencement ceremonies set for Dec. 11 and 12. The college will grant 14 doctoral, 23 master’s and one bachelor’s degree. UC is awarding a total of 2,457 degrees to 2,348 students during fall commencement. Some UC programs allow students to earn dual degrees.
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.
September 28, 2021
The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine is opening what it calls a “heart bank” to collect tissue samples that can be used by researchers. Those samples will be stored in a biorepository to provide a potentially valuable resource to help researchers find answers to scientific questions.
November 3, 2021
UC is part of a multi-institutional grant of nearly $2 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to improve the design, function and safety of personal protective equipment. UC researchers will work with teams from Iowa State University and the University of California-Davis on this four-year grant. One of the goals is to develop self-decontaminating PPE featuring high-protection efficiency
September 29, 2022
New research from UC shows that poor metabolic health parameters are linked to low breast milk production. The study was published in the journal Breastfeeding Medicine.
September 21, 2022
UC is one of 36 sites part of the GRADE study comparing different diabetes medicines. The study is going to be published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
February 22, 2021
Shaina Horner, a clinical researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases used her connections in the local Latinx community to help recruit a diverse population for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine trial.
August 27, 2020
UC and UC Health researchers are conducting research around the clock to fight COVID-19 and find out more about the virus.