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 [...]
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 [...]
By Bob Nellis
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Tagged brain cancer, diabetes, Discovery's Edge, genetics, genomics, heart disease, intensive care, medical research, science education, stem cells, zebrafish
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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 [...]
Much has been written about the new NIH draft guidelines for stem cell research — including a special section in Science this week and a perspective by Majumder and Cohen, ethicists from Baylor and Georgetown, respectively. Nature recently editorialized in its piece “Stem Cell Clarity.” In this week’s Nature Mayo Clinic bioethicist and researcher Jennifer [...]
It’s one thing for the a clinic to open up in the local shopping mall — this is a bit different. By now you’ve probably heard that Mayo Clinic will be launching a presence in the Mall of America, that internationally-known mega mall in Minnesota. What’s this have to do with research? Nothing directly, other [...]
Michael Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., appeared live on the CBS Morning show today to help tell the story of a young Michigan girl’s senior prom and the promise he made prior to her heart transplant surgery here at Mayo Clinic ten years ago. [See the CBS segment] . While the story’s been told on our Sharing [...]
People are the most important asset within the translational research field, according to an editorial this month in Science. It’s imperative that the investigators of tomorrow have cross-disciplinary training that allows them to leverage basic science discoveries, population sciences, genomics and bioinformatics to create treatments and delivery methods that reach beyond academia and into the community. [...]
Dr. Elias Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health, has joined the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees. (Read the rest of the announcement.)
Dr. Zerhouni spoke at Mayo’s commencement a few years ago and told the story of how his radiologist uncle urged him to apply to only two American institutions for residency training [...]
