UC establishes 'heart bank'
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.
UC grant will increase training of clinicians to work with at-risk youth
October 19, 2021
A nearly $2 million grant to the University of Cincinnati’s College of Allied Health Sciences will establish the UC Bear-CAT Fellowship Program. The goal of the project is to increase the number of adequately prepared graduate-level behavioral health clinicians entering and continuing practice with at-risk children, adolescents and transitional-age youth (ages 18-24) in the Greater Cincinnati region.
UC part of CDC grant to study the next generation of personal protective equipment
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
UC researcher examines impact of mass incarceration on youth, family health
March 2, 2022
Samantha Boch of the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, having worked as a prison nurse while working to get her doctorate is now devoting her time to research the impact of mass incarceration on child and family health. She was involved with two research papers that got published in 2021.
Innovative immersion program focuses on healthcare workforce gaps today, student career options tomorrow
June 8, 2022
Immersion innovation is ‘triple winner’ when it comes to current and future patient care, student career options and readiness, and as a means to help close healthcare workforce gaps
UC research finds link between poor health, low breast milk production
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.
UC to develop new cancer treatments
June 7, 2022
A chemical engineering professor at the University of Cincinnati will work with a South Korean pharmaceutical company to develop new cancer treatments using the technology found in some COVID-19 vaccines UC College of Engineering and Applied Science professor Joo-Youp Lee will work with Yuhan Corp. and Ewha Womans University in South Korea to improve the delivery of treatments that use messenger RNA and lipid nanoparticles. This technology also is being used to treat infectious diseases and genetic disorders.
Advances made in UC research extending lives
October 17, 2022
Treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) — a type of high blood pressure that affects arteries in the lungs and in the heart — have improved significantly over the past 15 to 20 years and researchers at the University of Cincinnati have been at the forefront of those improvements. The result of a series of studies UC researchers were part of have allowed new medications to come to market for patients with PAH.
UC Blue Ash professor looks at history of birth control movement in award-winning book
November 2, 2022
A new book by University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College Professor Jessica Furgerson explores the rhetorical history of the American birth control movement and the impact we still see today from the messaging and strategies that were used when it began over 100 years ago.