Three U-M investigators—Changyang Linghu, Longhua Guo and Sundeep Kalantry—have been acknowledged by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) prestigious High-Risk, High-Reward Research program.

After undergoing brain surgery as a child, Glenn Ratledge is now working as the ball boy for the Detroit Pistons and has been seizure free for 13 years.

A teenager shares her journey with spinal muscular atrophy and how she’s successfully headed off to college now.

Congratulations to Jun Hee Lee for receiving the 2024 Hanseong Science Award in Life Sciences from the Hanseong Son Jae-Han Scholarship Foundation for his development of SeqScope. The award is essentially the mini-Nobel for Korean scientists with awards in Physics, Chemistry, and Life Sciences. The goal of the award and the foundation is to contribute to the growth of Korean science and hopefully help catalyze future Nobel prize winners from South Korea.

The Board of Regents approved the appointments July 18 for Professor of Molecular and Integrative Physiology Roger D. Cone, Ph.D., and Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering Jeffrey A. Fessler, Ph.D., to one of U-M’s most prestigious honors: the Distinguished University Professorship (DUP).

The 2024-25 Doximity Residency Navigator has been released. It shows that U-M has six top 5 medical education programs, with nine more in the top 10 and another nine in the top 25.

University of Michigan Health and MSU Health Care are entering into a joint operating agreement to provide neurosurgery and neurology care to the people of mid-Michigan

On July 16, 2024, the EBS Chairs recognized Gary Zhang, from Lei Yin and Tony Tong lab, for the annual Endowment for Basic Sciences 2024 Research Staff Award.

On July 16, 2024, the EBS Chairs recognized Tim Houchin as the Endowment for Basic Sciences 2024 Teaching Award Recipient.

University of Michigan Health ranks among the nation’s best hospitals in more specialties than any other Michigan hospital, according to U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals Rankings for 2024-2025.

A network of proteins found in the central nervous system could be harnessed to increase the effectiveness, and reduce the side effects, of diabetes and weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro, according to research from the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute. 

How a gene for obesity affects the brain: The discovery could lead to new treatments for metabolic diseases with fewer side effects

Children with inoperable brain tumors may die sooner if they live in areas with lower average income and education levels, a Michigan Medicine-led study finds.

Congrats to Dr. Longhua Guo for being named a 2024 Pew Scholar to support his research on the molecular and cellular processes that reverse tissue aging.

Many Michigan Medicine labs are taking time to ensure that they are doing their part to support the Medical School’s major initiatives, including the push for carbon neutrality.