November 19, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Mayo Clinic’s just launched its new and improved “front door” for translational research. The Center for Translational Science Activities at Mayo has launched its new and enhanced web site. Why is that so important? Much of what the CTSAs do is to make medical research relevant to the needs of their communities. This site goes [...]
November 4, 2009 – 11:25 am
Three historic Mayo researchers were inducted into the Minnesota Science and Technology Hall of Fame recently. Edward Kendall, Ph.D., and Philip Hench, M.D., Mayo Nobel laureates who discovered cortisone, and Earl Wood, M.D., Ph.D., pioneering aerospace researcher. The honor came as part of the annual Tekne Awards. Eric Matteson, M.D., chair of Mayo’s Division of [...]
October 23, 2009 – 2:13 pm
Mayo is one of those medical centers that sees rare cases, diseases that have been diagnosed only a hundred or a handful of times. That expertise is one of the reasons why the National Institutes of Health is funding a Rare Disease Center to be based at Mayo’s Rochester campus. The grant that founded the [...]
October 23, 2009 – 1:25 pm
An independent selection panel has chosen a paper by a Mayo group of authors as the best article over a two year period in Mathematical Biosciences. The Bellman Prize, named for journal founder Dr. Richard Bellman, goes to David Dingli, M.D.,Ph.D., Matthew Cascino, Kresimir Josic, Ph.D. (University of Houston); Stephen Russell, M.D., Ph.D., and Zeljko [...]
September 25, 2009 – 8:44 am
“You never stop being a young investigator,” says Sundeep Khosla, M.D. It’s a great attitude to have after your peers nominate and select you for Mayo’s highest research honor – Distinguished Investigator. The physician scientist is internationally known for his findings in osteoporosis. After 21 years at Mayo Clinic he is still hard at it, [...]
September 17, 2009 – 2:13 pm
Four new features plus, from Mayo’s research magazine:
Data Mining to Redesign Critical Care Services
Using informatics, epidemiology, systems engineering and in-depth medical-record studies, this groundbreaking work is improving patient safety in ICUs and significantly cutting the cost of health care. It’s all part of Mayo’s continuing innovation in the Science of Health Care Delivery.
Zebrafish Genetics
Molecular biologists [...]
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September 15, 2009 – 11:00 am
Dilated cardiomyopathy, a congenital condition that weakens the heart, is the top reason people end up having heart transplants. The organ simply begins to fail on them. If caught early enough, the condition can be treated with medication, but in most cases it’s diagnosed too late. Without transplant, the survival rate, even in pediatric diagnoses, [...]
September 1, 2009 – 10:12 am
No, this isn’t about the spores you learned about in high school biology. This is the highly regarded grant from the National Cancer Institute. It stands for Specialized Program for Research Excellence and with this one, for ovarian cancer research, comes $11.5 million. The principal investigator is co-director of the Women’s Cancer Program in Mayo’s [...]
August 27, 2009 – 2:38 pm
Long a leader in multiple sclerosis research, Mayo Clinic has launched an MS Center with senior investigator Moses Rodriguez, M.D., at the helm.
“When I came to Mayo in 1983, there was not a single investigator doing MS research,” recalls Dr. Rodriguez. “Over the years we’ve built a strong, interdisciplinary faculty for MS and demyelinating disease [...]
August 19, 2009 – 11:37 am
Nicholas Wade’s excellent article on the science of aging in the Times this week made me think about the Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging here at Mayo and its director, James Kirkland, M.D., Ph.D. One of the major researchers in the Center is Jan van Deursen, Ph.D., who is trying to discover – [...]
