Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Five UM School of Medicine Physicians Invited to Join the American Clinical and Climatological Association
The University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) is proud to announce that five distinguished physician-leaders, Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, Bert W. O’Malley, MD, Rodney J. Taylor, MD, MPH, and Bradley A. Maron, MD, have been invited to join the American Clinical and Climatological Association (ACCA), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious medical honor societies.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
School of Medicine and UMB Students Win Wild Card Prize at National Academy of Medicine Public Health Challenge
On Oct. 17, a team of University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) students won the Wild Card prize at the National Academy of Medicine’s annual DC Public Health Case Challenge.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
UM School of Medicine Researcher Proposes New Medical Training on Cannabis Use
Maryland is one of 38 US states, along with three territories and the District of Columbia, that have legalized cannabis for medical purposes. This legal sea change has generated increasing interest in and use of cannabis and cannabis products, yet most health care practitioners and students feel underprepared to counsel patients on medical cannabis, according to a new paper co-authored by a University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) faculty member and published in JAMA Network Open.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025
University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing Launches First Continuing Medical Education Course in Artificial Intelligence
The University of Maryland Institute for Health Computing (UM-IHC) held its first-ever Continuing Medical Education session on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare on October 28. This inaugural session represents an exciting step toward building a broader CME initiative at UM-IHC—one that empowers clinicians and researchers to navigate, and lead within, the rapidly evolving world of AI in medicine.
Thursday, November 06, 2025
Distinguished Cancer Researcher Stuart S. Martin, PhD, Named Chair of the Department of Pharmacology & Physiology at UM School of Medicine
Stuart S. Martin, PhD, an internationally recognized breast cancer researcher, has been appointed Chair of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Dean Mark T. Gladwin, MD, announced today. As the distinguished Drs. Angela and Harry Brodie Professor of Translational Cancer Research, Dr. Martin has served as Interim Chair of the Department over the past year. He also serves as the Deputy Director of the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC), one of 57 National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the nation.
Thursday, November 06, 2025
Early-Stage Clinical Trial Demonstrates Promise of Intranasal Influenza Vaccine in Generating Broad Immunity
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) reported encouraging results from an early phase clinical trial that found an experimental intranasal vaccine triggered a broad immune response against multiple strains of H5N1 “bird flu”. The study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, highlights the potential of mucosal immunization strategies--where vaccines are sprayed into the nostrils--to prime immune defenses against diverse influenza strains.
Wednesday, November 05, 2025
NIH Awards $14.5 million Grant to the University of Maryland School of Medicine to Develop a Data Center for the Human Virome Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it is launching a new research program to understand how the viruses that live within the human body or on the skin—known as the human virome—can impact a person’s health.
Monday, November 03, 2025
Neuroscientist Marco Venniro, PhD, Receives Prestigious Award from Society for Neuroscience
Marco Venniro, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), was awarded today with $30,000 from the Society for Neuroscience for their prestigious Jacob P. Waletzky Award. The annual award is given to an early career scientist (within 15 years of his/her PhD or MD degree) whose independent research has led to significant conceptual and empirical contributions to the understanding of drug addiction.
Friday, October 31, 2025
University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers Uncover Biomaker Evidence Linking Prurigo Nodularis with Kidney Disease
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) researchers have uncovered new biological evidence linking the chronic skin disorder prurigo nodularis with subclinical kidney damage.
Friday, October 31, 2025
Meet Tomorrow’s Health Care Leaders
Last Friday, the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) and the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) celebrated the launch of their new B.S.-M.D. Program, a joint initiative between the A. James Clark School of Engineering, the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences (CMNS), and UMSOM. Supported by a five-year, $12.75 million grant from the MPowering the State partnership, the program prepares highly motivated undergraduates majoring in engineering, computer science, or mathematics to continue on to medical school.