U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough emphasized the vital role that nurses play in the U.S. health care system, and particularly among the nation’s veterans and families, during a visit to the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in Atlanta.
Emory University researchers will soon begin testing whether the use of artificial intelligence can reduce mortality in a subgroup of patients with sepsis, a life-threatening disorder that leads to organ dysfunction following an infection.
Emory researchers have discovered that exhaled vapors from e-cigarettes contain chemicals that are detectible in children's saliva, breath and blood samples.
Four outstanding Emory College students representing academic achievement and passionate curiosity across the liberal arts and sciences have been selected to be Bobby Jones Scholars at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta were one of 10 sites to take part in the first stage of a clinical trial of the recently FDA-approved use of Omalizumab to reduce allergic reactions to multiple food allergies.
The 2024 IPECP Project Awards prioritize student engagement in interprofessional learning opportunities across Emory’s three health professional schools for medicine, nursing and public health.
An Emory University study found that many pregnant women who delivered babies during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic were conflicted in their vaccine decision-making.
Emory University is among the top 20 in the nation overall for institutional funding from the National Institutes of Health. The School of Medicine, School of Nursing and School of Public Health were also in the top 20 in their categories.
An Emory University study shows wildfires led to an increase of anxiety-related emergency department visits in the western United States, amplifying the concerning parallel trajectory of two escalating public health crises: mental health and climate change.
On Valentine's Day, three of Emory's scientific power couples are proving that the best research is produced in pairs.
Epidemiology professor Tené T. Lewis was one of 10 participants in an exclusive roundtable discussion held Feb. 7 in Atlanta with first lady Jill Biden. The group discussed research, education, investment and other topics related to women’s health.
Eri Saikawa, from Emory College, and Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem, from Emory School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, are among 21 outstanding researchers named to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s New Voices program.
Emory researcher Vincent Marconi believes the science of aging must look beyond traditional doctoring to encompass a holistic, whole-body approach to healthy aging.
Household air pollution, caused in part by people cooking using open fires or inefficient stoves, is responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year. Emory University researchers conducted a multi-country study to assess the health effects of cooking with liquefied petroleum gas instead of harmful traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal, and dung.
A new Cell Reports paper from Bing Yao’s lab in Emory’s Department of Human Genetics provides insights into mechanisms underlying several neurodegenerative diseases, such as ALS and Alzheimer’s.
A new Emory-led special journal number seeks to redefine human aging as a holistic process, challenging biomedical research’s traditional focus on individual aging-related diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease and dementia.
Wilbur Lam, Susan S. Margulies and Cassandra Quave have been named to the National Academy of Inventors’ 2023 class of Fellows. Election as an Academy Fellow is the highest professional distinction awarded solely to inventors.
Emory’s Center for the Advancement of Diagnostics for a Just Society (ADJUST) is launching this year as part of NIH’s RADx program.
Nine Emory faculty were recently recognized as part of an elite group of the world’s most influential scientists by the Institute for Scientific Information.
Emory's inaugural AI.Health Symposium, hosted by the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute, included sessions on AI's clinical potential and breakthrough innovations, as well as issues of ethics, bias and privacy.
A new symposium — hosted by Emory University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, and Research!America — brought together stakeholders from across health care, state and federal governments, community partners, and advocacy groups to collaboratively identify opportunities to improve maternal and newborn health in Georgia.
The Emory University Faculty Council is soliciting nominations for the John F. Morgan Sr. Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 2024. Letters of nomination are due by Wednesday, Jan. 3.
Nominations for this year’s Albert A. Levy Award for Excellence in Scientific Research are open through Dec. 8. Recognize a faculty member who is outstanding in their field.
A team of Emory researchers has discovered a way to reduce the incidence of multi-drug resistant bacteria in the human intestinal system.
Emory Healthcare neurosurgeon Edjah K. Nduom, MD, has been granted a 5-year, $1.96 million R01 research award from the National Institutes of Health.
NIH has awarded $7.8 million to the Atlanta Center for Microsystems Engineered Point-of-Care Technologies (ACME POCT) to support inventors across the country in developing and testing point-of-care technologies to help improve patient care.
Regular, full-time Emory University faculty are invited to apply for funding for research and scholarly activity during the 2024-25 cycle. Applications are due by Jan. 17, 2024.
For PhD students and postdoctoral fellows working in professor Philip Santangelo’s lab, as well as undergraduates invited to join the audience, Jill Biden’s campus visit proved to be an inspiring, “once-in-a-lifetime” moment.
New research led by Hanjoong Jo, a professor of medicine and biomedical engineering at Emory, looks at how better understanding the complex dynamics of blood flow may help treat some heart disease.
A team of leading clinicians, engineers and neuroscientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of treatment-resistant depression published online in the journal Nature on Sept. 20.
Emory University researcher and inventor Dennis Liotta, PhD, has been named to the Bayh-Dole Coalition’s inaugural “Faces of American Innovation" for helping to transform HIV from a death sentence into a manageable illness.
First lady Jill Biden toured the lab of Emory professor Philip Santangelo, the first recipient of funding from a new federal agency supporting the Biden Cancer Moonshot, and discussed his groundbreaking research to train the immune system to treat and cure cancers and other diseases.
The National Institutes of Health has selected researchers from Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and School of Medicine to partner on the creation of a Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence.
Emory’s nationally distinguished Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) will use a new three-year grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to expand its reach into eight largely rural states: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The funding will also bolster efforts to improve regional data sharing, coordination, and response efforts through the creation of a Midwestern Helmsley CARES Collaborative.
President Joe Biden announced that a new federal agency has selected Emory to receive $24.8 million in funding to drive the development of a cutting-edge approach to prevent, treat and potentially cure diseases such as cancer, autoimmune disorders and viral infections.
A new study by researchers from Emory University, Toxic-Free Future, the University of Washington and Seattle Children’s Research Institute found toxic flame retardants in breast milk samples, showing — for the first time — that chemicals meant as replacements for other banned toxic chemicals are now building up in people.
A new artificial intelligence model finds that x-ray images collected during routine medical care can provide warning signs for diabetes, even in patients who don’t meet the guidelines for elevated risk.
A new center at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University will focus research efforts on eliminating cancer disparities in Georgia and nationwide.
The results of a novel study presented by Emory researchers during the International AIDS Society Conference in Brisbane, Australia, have revealed exciting findings in the pursuit of an HIV cure.
Emory’s Next Gen biomedical research internship provides hands-on research experience and works to diversify STEM fields. This year’s program expanded to host more students and offer more lab placements.
While Kimi Cottmeyer was being treated for leukemia at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, she found inspiration and hope from the community of Winship 5K participants and supporters. Register to participate in the Winship 5K virtually or in person on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Emory faculty and staff are frequently recognized for their work locally, nationally and internationally. Read a sampling of recent accolades, including awards for professional contributions and leadership appointments.
In light of the ongoing opioid epidemic, Emory University researchers are testing a new support service for those with substance use disorders who visit Grady Memorial Hospital’s emergency department.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute has awarded a $2.7 million grant to Emory University and Emory Healthcare researchers to study the use of data strategies to detect and predict atrial fibrillation in poststroke patients.
Five faculty members from the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health recently received national recognition for their excellence in epidemiologic research.
A narrative literature review recently published in Lancet addresses and summarizes the current understanding of diabetes disparities by examining differences between and within race and ethnic groups and among young people.
The National Football League and the NFL Players Association (NFLPA) have awarded a grant to an interdisciplinary team involving Emory University researchers to study innovative, first-of-their-kind, alternative pain management methods that could benefit NFL players and society at large. The researchers will investigate mindfulness-based intervention in sports medicine injuries.
Interested in expanding your horizons this summer? Listen to podcasts from Emory faculty, staff and students for captivating stories and compelling conversations. Check out new episodes and stay tuned for future releases.
New research from Emory University and Marcus Autism Center can potentially identify early brain and behavioral markers associated with social disability, which can inform early-intervention approaches to better support child and family outcomes.
Two faculty members of the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing have been inducted into the National Academies of Practice.
Cecelia Bellcross, founder of Emory’s Genetic Counseling Training Program and a leader in the field of communicating cancer genetics risk, died unexpectedly on June 8, 2023.
The Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is launching a data science certificate program to help nurses use big data to solve vexing problems in health care settings.
After three years of leadership, the principal investigators of the Emory Clinical Trials Unit are stepping down and two new leaders will take over to continue their legacy.
Winship has received renewal of the prestigious Comprehensive Cancer Center designation from the National Cancer Institute, ensuring its continuing place in the top tier of cancer centers in the United States.
82-year-old Elberta Jenkins was the first patient to successfully undergo a brand-new procedure pioneered by Emory’s structural heart team. Previously, Jenkins had been told that she was out of options for her failing heart.
Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center provided $813 million in community benefits in fiscal year 2022. From top-flight medical care to transformational research and education, the WHSC improved lives and provided hope.
A new study led by Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University researcher Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that women and underrepresented groups experience higher rates of workplace mistreatment in academic medicine.
In the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2023 Health Care Heroes program, Linda A. McCauley, dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University, has been named the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and Boghuma K. Titanji has been named winner of the Health Care Innovator/Researcher category.
As an academic research institution, Emory’s faculty and staff conduct studies across every discipline, from the sciences to the humanities. Here’s a sample of recent grant awards and the work they will support, plus highlights from some published research findings.
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center’s Office of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice recently held an open house to highlight exemplary Emory interprofessional educational programs and introduce two new programs for the 2023–24 academic year.
Three Emory Healthcare nurses have been named to the Project NeLL (Nurse’s Electronic Learning Library) Scholars program, a one-year data science immersion for Emory Healthcare nurses.
After an initial decline in diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease-related deaths, researchers from Emory and other institutions have noted a reversal of the trend, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Medicine.
The 2023 Albert E. Levy Award for Excellence in Scientific Research went to Jennifer Strafford Stevens and Guido Silvestri in recognition of their groundbreaking research and advancement of scientific knowledge.
Emory Healthcare and the Goizueta Institute @Emory Brain Health are joining forces with NeuroFlow, a behavioral health infrastructure company, to support and improve the delivery of psychiatric services for both patients and providers. The collaboration will also pilot a primary care suicide prevention program.
Experts from the Rollins School of Public Health discuss what the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency means and what’s next for COVID-19 research.
The results of a promising surgical treatment for hemorrhagic strokes, led by researchers at Emory University School of Medicine since 2017, were announced Saturday in a late-breaking clinical trial presentation at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) meeting in Los Angeles.
New research led by Emory Healthcare, in partnership with the Veterans Health Administration, is shining a light on the need for better medical interventions and more aggressive treatment for veterans with peripheral artery disease, a serious condition found in 10 million U.S. individuals nationwide that is one of the leading causes of the 185,000 major lower extremity amputations that happen each year. In a study published Wednesday morning in JAMA Surgery, lead author Olamide Alabi, MD, a vascular surgeon who splits her time between Emory Healthcare and the VA (Veterans Affairs) Atlanta Healthcare System, investigated ten years’ worth of health records from the U.S. Department of Veteran Health Affairs, the nation’s largest integrated health care system. To better understand what happened to the veterans who lost their limbs during the study period of 2010-2020, Alabi and her team wanted to examine healthcare utilization in the year before amputation.
Emory researcher Larry Young is using his scientific discoveries about pair bonding to help end the traumatic cultural practice of female genital mutilation in East Africa.
In a significant step for the treatment of neuroblastoma, an international group of researchers led by Winship Cancer Institute researcher Kelly Goldsmith, MD, has shown that the targeted therapy lorlatinib is safe and effective in treating high-risk neuroblastoma.
Entrepreneurial faculty and their discoveries were recognized at the Office of Technology Transfer’s 17th Annual Celebration of Technology and Innovation on March 23. Awardees specialize in a range of disciplines including ethnobotany, radiology, nursing and antiviral studies.
It wasn’t long ago that women’s heart health was barely a blip on the scientific community’s radar. Now, following the path carved out by pioneers like Nanette Wenger, Emory researchers and physicians like Viola Vaccarino are examine how stress impacts women’s heart health — as shown in this recently published NIH-funded study.
Gene therapy is becoming reality for a number of diseases as researchers refine once-experimental approaches. Emory’s Genetic Clinical Trials Center was designed as a hub for testing the increasing number of products aimed at genetic diseases.
An important moment in the history of research at Emory University occurred Wednesday afternoon when a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the new Health Sciences Research Building II.
Two researchers at Emory have received a $1.3 million grant from the United States Environmental Protection Agency to precisely measure the cumulative health impact of environmental stressors on Atlanta neighborhoods.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
The IPECP Project Awards provide WHSC faculty with the opportunity to create new or refine existing interprofessional programs across Emory’s three health professional schools and their health care partners.
Emory University continues to be ranked among the nation’s top universities for research funding from the National Institutes of Health, according to an independent ranking. The individual schools that make up Emory’s Woodruff Health Sciences Center all ranked in the top 20 in their categories, with two in the top 10.
The Emory Center for Health in Aging has announced three innovative pilot projects, designed to spark new collaborations to promote well-being among older adults.
Machelle T. Pardue — a translational scientific researcher with a career portfolio of more than $18M in funded work — has been appointed vice chair and director of research for the Department of Ophthalmology/Emory Eye Center.
Manoj Jain is the inaugural recipient of the Emory Global Health Institute’s Jeffrey P. Koplan Global Health Award, named in honor of EGHI founder Jeff Koplan. Jain was recognized for his efforts to address tuberculosis in India.
Winship Cancer Institute researchers and colleagues from several health care systems and universities have discovered a new AI-derived biomarker that uses routine imaging scans to help predict which patients with lung cancer will respond to immunotherapy.
The Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory University, Grady Health System and collaborators at the University of Michigan have been awarded a five-year, $4.4 million project to continue studying motor vehicle crashes in metro Atlanta that result in injuries treated at Grady.
A new preclinical study recently reported in Science Advances and led by Emory University and UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests that cooling brain tumors to room temperature may extend survival of patients with glioblastoma multiforme.
Two Emory University academic and research leaders, Ray Dingledine and George Painter, have been selected as 2022 Fellows by the National Academy of Inventors.
Winship breast oncologist Kevin Kalinsky, MD, MS, shared RxPONDER trial results at the 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium showing Black women with HR+/HER2- breast cancer have worse outcomes than other racial and ethnic groups.
With leadership from faculty experts across the university, the Emory Climate Research Initiative will focus Emory’s scholarly efforts to address fundamental challenges posed by climate change.
The recent Reimagining Health Science Education: Design-Thinking Workshop brought together faculty, staff, students and clinicians from Emory’s three health professional schools and Emory Healthcare to participate in 12 interprofessional teams.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.
The program, one of fewer than 60 in North America and the only one in Georgia, turns 10 this year. As demand for this expertise increases, Emory is looking to strengthen support for its students.
New findings from a meta-analysis published in Nature Immunology examine the biological mechanisms responsible for why some people’s immune systems respond differently to vaccinations.
Emory University has been recognized for having some of the world’s best health sciences programs, according to U.S. News and World Report’s 2022-23 rankings of Best Global Universities.
A large-scale review of data from Emory-run national health registry, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that Black and Hispanic adults were less likely than white adults to receive CPR regardless of racial and ethnic makeup or income strata of neighborhoods where heart patients collapsed.
Researchers at Emory University have synthesized a novel molecule designed to target advanced melanomas, which are often resistant to existing treatments.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a 2022 New Innovator Award to biomedical engineer Felipe Garcia Quiroz for his innovative molecular approaches to monitoring clumps of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases.
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Emory researchers studying the inherited sleep disorder myotonic dystrophy have found evidence indicating a link to the inhibitor neurotransmitter GABA — and a potential remedy.
Due to the cultural stigma attached to breast cancer, cultural stoicism toward pain and symptoms, and language barriers, Asian American breast cancer survivors — especially those with depression — tend to suffer unnecessarily from pain that could be easily managed with pharmacological and other treatment strategies.
Research is an integral part of Emory, from the sciences to the humanities. Read a sample of recent grant awards across campus along with newly published research findings.