UH researcher working to identify potential new therapeutic targets for kidney disease
Among the primary forms of kidney disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is the most common and is marked by high circulating levels of the suPAR...
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Researcher urges caution using remdesivir to treat COVID-19
While the world has its eyes on vaccines to stop the spread of coronavirus, therapeutics are still necessary to treat hospitalized patients. One of these...
More work needed to identify risk from Nigeria strain, says researcher
A researcher who identified a novel coronavirus variant in Nigeria has cautioned against automatic assumptions that it poses similar risks to strains that have emerged...
Kessler Foundation researcher receives grant to study emotional processing deficits in children with TBI
Jean Lengenfelder, PhD, of Kessler Foundation, received a two-year $168,001 grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research to study the impact of...
Researcher examines why people choose to wear face coverings
Wearing a face covering in public is dependent upon how often people observe others wearing them, according to recent findings. Other important motivating factors are...
Engineering researcher receives EPSCoR grant for electrocatalysis work
Research will provide scientific basis improving battery materials and electrocatalysts for polymer recycling and water treatment Credit: Russell Cothren, University of Arkansas Lauren Greenlee, associate...
Penn State researcher to study how vitamin D regulates host immunity to viral infection
Funding from the National Institutes of Health will enable a Penn State researcher to study whether vitamin D supplementation could help people ward off or...
STAT+: A leading AI researcher calls for standards to ensure equity and fairness
A top researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday said that artificial intelligence systems developed for medicine must be more transparent and judged...
Dr. Rod J. Rohrich Receives Career Researcher Award
Dallas plastic surgeon, Dr. Rod J. Rohrich has been honored as the recipient of the 2020 Plastic Surgery Foundation Distinguished Career Researcher Award. This award was...
NAU researcher leads international effort to study and track brucellosis
Northern Arizona University researcher Jeff Foster is leading an international effort to study and track the spread of one of the most important infectious diseases...
Researcher receives NIA grant to study traumatic stress-related accelerated cellular aging in the brain
Erika Wolf, PhD, clinical research psychologist for the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor of psychiatry at Boston...
When AI is the opposite of sinister: An MIT researcher is held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity
In June, when MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay went to Massachusetts General Hospital for a mammogram, her data were run through a deep learning...
uOttawa Ph.D. student receives Fire Researcher of the Year Award
Credit: University of Ottawa Jennifer Keir, a uOttawa PhD student and Research Associate whose research investigates firefighters’ health and their occupational exposure to hazardous substances,...