Taubman Emerging Scholar Brendon Watson, MD, PhD, has received new R01 funding of $450,000 per year from 2021 to 2026, to study stress and depression. The research will focus on brain and body responses to various stressors, measuring more than 50 metrics to observe effects on circadian changes, neural circuits and more. Dr. Watson, a…
Allison Billi, MD, PhD, is the latest Michigan Medicine faculty member to be appointed a Taubman Emerging Scholar. Dr. Billi is an assistant professor of dermatology and scientist studying autoimmune disorders. Her team aims to understand why women are so much more likely to develop autoimmune disease than men, and they are looking into skin…
Thursday, December 16, 5-6 pm via Zoom Join us for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, featuring Jun Lee, PhD. Click here for free Zoom registration. Dr. Lee’s talk, “See Everything Quickly through SEQ-Scope — Microscopic Examination of Spatial Transcriptome,” discusses a technique he and his team have developed. It uses high-throughput sequencing, instead of a…
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the special challenges facing early-career faculty who are balancing family caregiving responsibilities with building their biomedical research careers. Now, new funding from national nonprofits and internal resources will help support selected U-M Medical School faculty facing this situation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, in concert with the American Heart Association,…
John Carethers, MD, chair of Michigan Medicine’s Dept. of Internal Medicine, announced that Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar, Brian Emmer, MD, PhD received the Laurence F. McMahon MD Dept. of Internal Medicine Early Career Endowment Award. His was one of just three awards announced for 2021. Dr. Carethers explained the award as follows: The Department of…
Join us at 5 p.m. on November 9 for the latest Taubman Technology Talk, about using in vivo calcium imaging in freely behaving animals to decode neural information. “How Am I Wired?” will be presented by Joanna Spencer-Segal, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of internal medicine in the division of metabolism, endocrinology, and diabetes. This…
Two more Michigan Medicine physician-scientists have been designated as Taubman Emerging Scholars, the university’s Taubman Institute announced. The five-year, $200,000 Emerging Scholar grants are intended to accelerate the work of faculty members who run research laboratories in addition to caring for patients. “Physician-investigators fill a vitally important role in the development of new medical discovery…
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…
The University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center has named Erika Newman, M.D., as its first associate director for diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. She will lead the center’s efforts to diversify the next generation of healthcare professionals and researchers, and to champion an anti-racist and just culture within the cancer center. Dr. Newman, a Taubman…
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…