COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: RESEARCH
Our research goals are broad and ambitious, as are the needs and hopes of our patients. We aim to advance treatment now, and health in the future, by pursuing both fundamental insights and their application to the practice of medicine. Investigators across the College of Medicine are doing cutting-edge research in clinical medicine, in basic biomedical science, and in the translation of basic findings into clinical practice and societal health. Focus areas include cancer, women's health, neurosciences, cardiac and vascular medicine, infectious disease, and obesity and diabetes.
NOTABLE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
►Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have been awarded more than $11.7 million to study the pathology of severe lung injury. The study, part of a multi-pronged investigation into acute lung injury, or ALI, is funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, one of the National Institutes of Health. ►For the first time, researchers have discovered a disease mechanism that links hereditary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to the more common "sporadic" form of ALS -- and points to a possible therapeutic target
► Doctors can be taught to listen better to individual circumstances that may affect patient care, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The findings are reported in the Sept. 15 issue of JAMA.
►Eye Movement Tests Identify Brain Abnormalities in Family Members of Individuals with Autism
►Researchers identify new autism gene discoveries: Research findings that show that autism is caused in part by genetic changes can help scientist develop treatments, says Edwin Cook, professor of psychiatry and director of the Autism Center for Excellence.
►Dr. Gail Prins, reproductive physiologist at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, is highlighted in Nature Magazine for her studies regarding bisphenol A and its effects on prostate cancer susceptibility.
►The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five year $20 million grant to the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The grant is the largest in UIC's history.
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►The development of stem cell therapies for blood disorders, lung diseases, stroke, and heart repair funded by $2.8 million in grants from the Illinois Regenerative Medicine Institute.
►Research on the mechanisms of infertility funded by a grant of $6.8 million from the National Institutes of Health. Studies to optimize the transplantation of pancreatic islet cells to cure type I diabetes.
►The use of functional, physiologic, and metabolic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine the patho- and neuro-physiological basis of brain injury and disease.
►The development of nanoscale neuromodulatory platforms to correct loss of vision resulting from retinal degenerative diseases such as macular degeneration funded by a grant of $6.3 million from the National Eye Institute.