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Mike Holinstat
Department News
Mike Holinstat, Ph.D. has article posted in CELL
Mike Holinstat, Ph.D., recently co-authored an article, "An age-progressive platelet differentiation path from hematopoietic stem cells causes exacerbated thrombosis", that was posted in CELL.
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Health Lab
Commonly used antibiotic brings more complications, death in the sickest patients
In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, clinicians make split-second decisions about which antibiotics to give a patient when a life threatening infection is suspected. Now, a study reveals that these decisions may have unintended consequences for patient outcomes.
Department News
Nicholas Kolbman and Kassidy Jungles selected as Rackham Predoctoral Fellows
Nicholas Kolbman (Ph.D. student, Pal and Mashour Labs) and Kassidy Jungles (Ph.D. student, Green Lab) have recently been selected as Rackham Predoctoral Fellows.
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Health Lab
How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans experiencing chronic pain
Recent developments represent a dramatic change from long standing federal policy around these substances that has historically criminalized their use and blocked or delayed research efforts into their therapeutic potential.
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Health Lab
Researchers create human aortic aneurysm model to advance disease understanding, treatment testing
Using human cells in an animal body, a team of researchers has developed a functional model of thoracic aortic aneurysm, creating opportunities for more effective understanding of disease development and treatments for the potentially fatal condition.
kasssidy jungles
Department News
Kassidy Jungles recently featured in Center for the Education of Women+ newsletter
Kassidy Jungles (Pharmacology Ph.D. student, Green Lab) has been featured in the most recent Center for the Education of Women+ newsletter.
The Fundamentals podcast, season 2
Medical School News
Back 2 The Fundamentals: Successful research podcast launches second season
In the second season of The Fundamentals podcast, co-hosts Kelly Malcom and Jordan Goebig talk to several leading experts from the Medical School about their fields and the fundamental questions they are trying to answer — and discover why U-M is such an amazing place for research. Six new episodes of the popular podcast were released on May 6
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Department News
Dr. Emily Jutkiewicz receives the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Research Professorship of Translational Pharmacology
Please join the department in congratulating Dr. Emily Jutkiewicz, Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Chair for Education, on her appointment as the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Research Professor of Translational Pharmacology!
Cagney Coomer
Department News
Welcome, Dr. Cagney Coomer!
Please welcome our newest postdoc, Dr. Cagney Coomer. She will be receiving postdoctoral training in Dr. Kevin Jones’s lab.
Matt Brody
Department News
Dr. Matt Brody receives the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Early Career Research Professorship of Molecular Pharmacology
Dr. Matt Brody receives the inaugural Pfizer Upjohn Early Career Research Professorship of Molecular Pharmacology
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The Fundamentals
Can AI Make Us Healthier Humans?
Dr. Jody Platt. She is an Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. Trained in medical sociology and health policy, her research focuses on issues at the intersection of informatics and ethics. She is interested in understanding what makes data-driven health trusted, and the pathways for earning, achieving, and sustaining trust across stakeholders. Dr. Platt is the Academy Health and ABIM Foundation Senior Scholar in Residence advising on issues of measuring and building trust.
Ahmad Hider, U-M Medical School graduating Class of 2024
Medical School News
2024 Graduation Awards honoree excited to become surgeon-in-training, reshape medicine
When M4 Ahmad Hider crosses the stage at Hill Auditorium this week to receive his diploma and officially become Dr. Hider, like his fellow graduates he is excited about the future that awaits him in residency and beyond. As Hider becomes more fully immersed in the health care system, however, he also feels that many things need fixing. So, when he begins a residency in general surgery at University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, he is preparing to for a dual role — becoming the best surgeon he can, and improving health care for patients.
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Health Lab
Why personalized medicine is important in rare kidney disease
Building a comprehensive human kidney cell and tissue catalog could help develop more treatments for kidney disease.
Scientific illustration of gliobastoma cells in the brain
Health Lab
Path forward for glioblastoma treatment
Experts in brain cancer outline current discoveries and offer a path of hope for glioblastoma treatment
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Health Lab Podcast
Period Poverty and the Need to Make Menstruation Products Easier to Access
A survey focused on how much people in their teens and early 20s know about periods and their experience and attitudes around “period poverty”.