A research project funded by the Taubman Institute has demonstrated that a simple, wearable temperature sensor was able to detect dangerous complications in hospitalized cancer patients hours earlier than routine monitoring. The device, which takes readings every two minutes and wirelessly transmits them to the cloud, was able to quickly detect adverse events that affect body…
Results from a Michigan Medicine study reveal that targeting a protein found in the skin may reduce the severity of psoriasis. Interferons play a major role in activating the body’s response to viral threats, but they have also been detected in the lesions of many psoriasis patients at abnormal levels. New findings, published in the…
Taubman Scholar Henry L. Paulson, M.D., Ph.D.,has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. Dr. Paulson is the Lucile Groff Professor of Neurology…
Ann Arbor — Women with obesity before and during pregnancy are at risk of more complications than leaner women, including hypertension, gestational diabetes and increased need for Caesarian delivery. Their children also have an increased risk of obesity and other metabolic problems. Some of the risk in children may be due to programming of the…
Taubman Emerging Scholar Kanakadurga Singer, MD, has been designated as the inaugural Valerie Castle Opipari, MD Professor at Michigan Medicine. This new professorship honors Dr. Opipari, a pediatric oncologist-hematologist and the first woman chair of Michigan Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics, a post she held from 2003-2018. As a physician-researcher, Dr. Opipari also is a founding…
Early in the wake of the pandemic as new epidemiological data were emerging, a major concern shared by healthcare workers (HCWs) was the potential to transmit virus without any warning signs. A critical unaddressed issue is whether early detection, especially of infection before obvious symptoms, can prevent “pre-symptomatic transmission” and stop further spread. Sung…
A team of University of Michigan physician-researchers have launched a clinical trial of a drug they believe may address the deadly blood clots that form in some patients with COVID-19. The trial is the first COVID-related investigation to be initiated by Michigan Medicine scientists. The trial is based on the results of a blood inflammation…
A Michigan Medicine physician-investigator and recipient of a Taubman Institute Innovation Projects (TIIP) grant will use samples from COVID-19 patients to study how the virus affects a patient’s immune profile. Daniel Goldstein, MD, last year began a TIIP study that will scrutinize the immune system of organ transplant patients in an effort to refine the…
By Ian Demsky Senior Writer, U-M Rogel Cancer Center How do a couple of universally expressed proteins in stem cells and developing embryos influence an individual cell’s ultimate fate — whether it ultimately becomes, for example, a retinal cell, a heart muscle cell, or a stomach lining cell? That’s the question that Rajesh C.…
The Taubman Institute will co-sponsor a new DNA sequencing project that aims to expand knowledge of the human genome and its role in disease. “Short Tandem Repeats in Precision Health and Human Disease” will be jointly supported by the institute and the Michigan Medicine Precision Health research initiative. The project is one of seven funded…