Friday, September 30, 2016
New Research Finds New Evidence That Human Senses Are Interconnected From Birth
In humans, senses are intimately entwined. Sight, vision, touch, smell and taste all weave together in the brain, giving us a powerfully dynamic and complex experience of reality. For decades, scientists have debated whether this interconnection is present from birth, or develops through childhood.
Monday, September 26, 2016
New School of Medicine Initiative to Recruit Top Scientists Featured in the Baltimore Sun
The University of Maryland School of Medicine has embarked on the most ambitious recruiting drive of its 210-year history — an effort to hire top scientists with the goal of making its biomedical research programs the best in the country.
Friday, September 23, 2016
Investiture ceremony Installs Dr. Melhem as the Dean John M. Dennis Chair in Radiology
Investiture ceremonies have a way of building connections between the School’s past and present and serving as a bond between faculty, alumni, donors, and mentors across multiple generations. Such was the case on September 21, when Elias R. Melhem, MD, was installed as the Dean John M. Dennis Chair in Radiology before a large audience of family, friends and colleagues of both the benefactor and the recipient.
Thursday, September 22, 2016
University of Maryland School of Medicine Holds Inaugural Global Health Summit
The Institute for Global Health (IGH) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) will hold its first Global Health Summit on September 26. The event, which will take place from noon to 6 p.m. in the SMC Campus Center at 621 W. Lombard Street, will seek to foster collaboration among scientists and promote new and innovative global health research at UM SOM, as well as at other schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). Faculty and staff from UM SOM, as well as other schools are welcome at the event.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Biomedical Researchers Break New Ground in Fight Against Multiple Sclerosis
Researchers from the University of Maryland Fischell Department of Bioengineering and the University of Maryland School of Medicine report a new way to "turn off" the harmful immune attack that occurs during autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS), while keeping healthy functions of the immune system intact.
Monday, September 19, 2016
Prominent Virus Researchers Descend Upon Baltimore to Participate in the IHV’s 18th Annual International Meeting
The Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland School of Medicine commenced IHV’s 18th Annual International Meeting on Monday September 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. IHV’s Annual International Meeting attracts hundreds of elite scientists who descend upon Baltimore to share ideas and inspire collaborations.
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Largest-Ever Study to Compare Medications to Prevent Life-Threatening Clots in Orthopaedic Trauma Patients
Is the blood thinner heparin the most effective option to reduce the risk of blood clots for fracture patients? A comprehensive new study involving 13,000 patients, led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM), will try to resolve this important question.
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
UM SOM Researchers Discover New Potential Genetic Links to Common Brain Disorder
An international group of researchers has for the first time identified a set of 30 inherited recessive genes that play a role in intellectual disability (ID), a neurodevelopmental disorder that, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), affects as many as 213 million people around the world.
Wednesday, September 07, 2016
Dean Reece to Participate in National Dean's Panel on Critical Issues in Medical Education
Panel Discussion will be live streamed today via Internet. University of Maryland School of Medicine Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, will be one of four deans participating in a panel discussion to be held today, September 8, 2016 from 12 noon to 1:30 pm at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
New Study Shows Breakthrough Treatment for Essential Tremor Using Focused Ultrasound
University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) researchers, along with an international group of investigators, have discovered for the first time that treatment with MRI-guided focused ultrasound can effectively treat patients with essential tremor (ET), a neurological movement disorder that affects an estimated 10 million people in the U.S. The results, which are published in the forthcoming issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, led to recent approval of the treatment by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA),