A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) has received a grant from the USAID to pursue a novel solution to the Zika outbreak. The team, led by Molly Duman Scheel, an associate professor of medical and molecular genetics at the Indiana...

Innovative research includes efforts to treat Parkinson’s disease, understand heart disease and strokes, tackle bacterial drug resistance     Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics (AD&T), a strategic research initiative at the University of Notre Dame, has announced the recipients of its Discovery Fund awards for 2016. Each year, these awards are...

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New fellowships enable summer research at New York’s largest health system   Two Notre Dame undergraduate students—Anne Grisoli and Richard Felli—and two graduate students—Katelyn Ludwig and Steve Marczak—spent the summer of 2016 conducting laboratory and clinical research at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in New York. All four are...

Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells leave the primary tumor and spread to other sites in the body, is responsible for more than 90 percent of cancer deaths. Thus, there is a significant need to improve the therapeutic options for patients who suffer from metastatic disease. New research from...

Katherine Ward enrolled as a graduate student at Notre Dame with her sights set on academia and work that would help people like her father, who had long suffered from serious back pain. She had watched for many years as his diagnosis would change, but the pain wouldn’t go away....

Notre Dame researcher uses tumor cells to evaluate the effectiveness of current medications Amanda Hummon, Huisking Foundation, Inc. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry In recent years researchers have begun to understand that the development of colon cancer, which is the second most common cancer in the United States, can...

Notre Dame researcher explores bacteria beyond the ability of typical hospital setting  Gail Weaver, post-doctoral research associate Each year 332,000 total hip replacements are performed in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Out of those, nearly one percent of patients will get an infection...

Cancer survivor builds tissue bank for Harper Cancer Research Institute Toni Page-Mayberry, tissue bank consent coordinator at the Harper Cancer Research Institute These days, Page-Mayberry funnels that passion into her job as the tissue bank consent coordinator for the Mike and Josie Harper Cancer Research Institute at Notre Dame. Her...