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Denise ParrishThe donation will go toward recruiting Black male teachers and underrepresented physicians.
Miguelangelo HernandezThe project is poised to find new ways that can lead to more scientific results and discoveries.
Kevin 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.
Toni BakerAn 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.
Less may be more when it comes to blood transfusions for babies who need lifesaving ECMO.
“Although we have long known that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective, this study concludes that communities with higher vaccination rates have slower rates of community spread when an outbreak of COVID-19 does occur,” said Dr. Phillip Coule.
The findings could point toward new therapeutic targets for movement disorders.
Jennifer Hilliard ScottHigh housing costs, frequent moves and homelessness are higher among cancer survivors and can negatively affect their long-term care, according to a new study by the Medical College of Georgia.
Stacey EidsonDr. Jennifer Sullivan, the dean of The Graduate School, proudly announced that Augusta University has received a “high research activity” ranking from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
In apparently the first study of its kind, investigators used optical genome mapping to get a thorough assessment of the genome of 52 severally ill patients with COVID-19.
Stacey HudsonFrom years of service to multimillion-dollar grants, we celebrate our successes together! Dive into stories about students, faculty, staff and alumni inside the DCG Magazine.
Lindsey MorrisDespite liver cancer being the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, there are not many treatment options currently available for patients. Dr. Yukai He and his team want to change that.
Dr. Yanbin Dong, a geneticist and cardiologist who joined the Georgia Prevention Institute 20 years ago, has been tapped to lead the institute.
Wang will enable MCG to more strategically address the pervasive condition and identify better therapeutic and prevention strategies.
The new Center for Immunology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University will dramatically expand research to better harness the power of the immune system to prevent and treat disease.
Haley CrainThe High-Performance Computing Services Core is a joint university research initiative, supported by Augusta University’s Division of Information Technology and the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences.
A molecule of RNA called CARMN has been found in abundance in the healthy smooth muscle cells that help give our blood vessels strength and flexibility, and distinctly decreased in vascular diseases like atherosclerosis, a major cause of heart...
Provost Neil J. MacKinnon announced his office will offer grant funding for investigations into rural health issues to 10 collaborative research projects.
Drugs that block the mineralocorticoid receptor, like the hypertension medications spironolactone and eplerenone, may help protect bone cells, MCG scientists say.
In the first study to use CBD in an animal model of glioblastoma, researchers find inhaled CBD shrinks the size of the highly aggressive, lethal brain tumor glioblastoma by reducing the essential support of its microenvironment.