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Photo: On Dec. 19, 2018, IU School of Medicine faculty Jamie Renbarger, MD, leader of the Precision Health Initiative’s childhood sarcoma research team, and Karen Pollok, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics at the school, visited Tyler Trent to share how his donation is helping researchers gain a better understanding of his cancer. (Andrea Zeek/IU School of […]

Alan Palkowitz is a new leader on the IU Precision Health Initiative research team. Indiana University Precision Health Initiative researchers have added an industry veteran in drug discovery to their increasingly impressive team of physician-scientists working to prevent and cure diseases prevalent in Indiana. Alan Palkowitz, PhD, is a new Visiting Research Professor in the […]

Dr. Raghu Mirmira, director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Disease at IU School of Medicine. November is National Diabetes Awareness Month, and in our latest podcast, IU School of Medicine Associate Dean for Research Mentoring Dr. Aaron E. Carroll is talking to Dr. Raghu Mirmira, director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases at IU School […]

Photo: IU School of Medicine Dean Jay L. Hess, MD, PhD, with 2018 Watanabe Prize winner Jean Bennett, MD, PhD, at the 10th annual meeting of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Dr. Bennett is the physician-scientist behind the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. to target a disease (blindness) caused by mutations […]

September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and in our latest podcast, Indiana University School of Medicine’s Dr. Aaron E. Carroll, professor of pediatrics and associate dean for research mentoring, is talking about the difference between how cancers behave in children and adults and how that informs treatment approaches. In this month’s episode, Carroll interviews […]

Organs perform many functions essential to human life, but if they stop working, there aren’t many easy options to fix them. According to the latest data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, there are more than 110,000 people in the United States waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. Each day, about 20 people die because a donor isn’t […]

Time. It’s one of the most precious resources an IU School of Medicine researcher has. That’s why school leadership want to make faculty aware of some of the resources available to help them optimize their research processes and overall laboratory environments, so they can get the most out of their research projects. “From grant writing […]

By Eric Schoch Don’t panic! That sage advice, made famous years ago by writer Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, applies equally well now to those who might do some at-home smell testing and wonder what it means about the health of their brain. In a recent research report, Shannon L. Risacher, […]

By Andrea Zeek and Emily McKnight At IU School of Medicine, 2017 was an exciting year for research and discovery, with faculty scientists and physicians bringing in a school record of more than $135 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)—an increase of more than 13 percent compared to 2016 and nearly […]