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Provost promotes the power of research at Augusta University

Avatar photoStacey Eidson

Dr. Neil J. MacKinnon, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, has established his own research team at Augusta University and strongly encourages research enterprise across all 10 colleges.

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Rural Georgia counties pinpointed as hotspots for death from four common cancers

Toni Baker

Geographic and racial/ethnic disparities at play in mortality rates from four common cancers.

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Powerhouse-pruning protein may also aid new blood vessel growth in vascular disease

Toni Baker

Early evidence shows in the face of heart disease and peripheral artery disease, the protein has a new job.

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Oncology professor answers questions regarding National Colon Cancer Awareness Month

man with glasses standing in front of blue backgroundMilledge Austin

"Colon cancer is largely preventable if patients undergo screening tests, like a surveillance colonoscopy starting at 45 years or earlier depending on family history."

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New clues about how a high-salt diet contributes to cardiometabolic diseases found deep in the brain

Toni Baker

A chronic high-salt diet can turn a normally helpful system against us, increasing risk for cardiometabolic diseases like high blood pressure and heart disease.

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Chemistry and physics student to present research at Capitol Hill

Si-Long Chen

Out of hundreds of applicants for Posters on the Hill, Wade was one of 60 selected. 

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Faculty earn $25,000 intramural grant to study effects of exercise in people living with dementia

man smilingMiguelangelo Hernandez

Currently, there are more than 6 million Americans living with dementia.

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Epidemiology faculty receives NIH award for smoking cessation study

man with glasses standing in front of blue backgroundMilledge Austin

On top of receiving funding for her research, Majeed has also been invited to speak at the Tobacco Treatment Specialist Training Recertification Conference.

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Scientists look for answers to taste loss with COVID

Toni Baker

It’s not certain that the tongue and taste buds even have the well-known ACE2 receptors found on cells in the lungs, heart, kidneys, intestines and brain, which the spiky SARS-CoV-2 latches onto.

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Cyber faculty member awarded Augusta University’s first National Science Foundation CAREER Award

man with glasses standing in front of blue backgroundMilledge Austin

“Whether it's self-driving cars or the drones in the lab, if their controllers are using the machine-learning techniques, they will have some upgrades during their lifetime, and my results may be helpful to these kind of systems remaining safe,”...

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Institutional Review Board at Augusta University prioritizes protection of research subjects

Avatar photoKevin Faigle

“Every box to check has a meaning, everything that is asked has a meaning and it goes back to protection.”

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Unusual partners aid blood vessel growth

Toni Baker

The scientists worked in models of blood vessel development in the highly vascularized retina and in peripheral artery disease in a limb. 

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MCG epidemiology expert continues writing and research to better public health

man with glasses standing in front of blue backgroundMilledge Austin

“I’m very pleased that the third edition was released. The contributors include experts in epidemiology, bioethics and health law from the United States and several other countries,” Dr. Steven Coughlin said.

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Undergraduate students needed for paid applied mathematics research opportunity

Si-Long Chen

“Undergraduate research allows students to both go deeper into mathematics and serves as a way to integrate knowledge from different mathematics courses that may not seem related.”

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Protein protects brain cells most impacted by glaucoma

Toni Baker

The new study provides some of the first evidence that synthetic compounds that activate sigma 1 receptor may one day help mitigate damage from glaucoma.

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Chick-fil-A gives $100,000 to fund minority recruitment efforts at Augusta University

Avatar photoDenise Parrish

The donation will go toward recruiting Black male teachers and underrepresented physicians.

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Public health professor awarded $600,000 NIH grant to study high-performing research organizations

man smilingMiguelangelo Hernandez

The project is poised to find new ways that can lead to more scientific results and discoveries.

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Medical College of Georgia researcher uses NIH database to study autism, cancer survivors

Avatar photoKevin Faigle

“In order to get better precision medicine, or in another term called 'personalized medicine,' you have to first know overall the population characteristics, and make inferences from the population data," said Dr. Jie Chen.

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Current national trend of using two access points to put newborns in respiratory failure on ECMO increases mortality, study finds

Toni Baker

An assessment of nearly 250 newborns placed on ECMO because of respiratory failure over 17 years indicates that when breathing, not heart function, is the problem, the safest path is a single cannula in the right internal jugular.

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Red blood cell transfusions can increase mortality rates of newborns on ECMO, study finds

Toni Baker

Less may be more when it comes to blood transfusions for babies who need lifesaving ECMO.

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