Medical school, graduate bioscience programs tops in state according to national survey
Two bioscience graduate programs—paleontology and ecology/evolutionary biology—were ranked the best in the United States, and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine tied for 16th in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation's best graduate schools. Graduate programs in the biological sciences overall tied for 18th in the magazine's "Best Graduate Schools" issue...
Two bioscience graduate programs—paleontology and ecology/evolutionary biology—were ranked the best in the United States, and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine tied for 16th in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation's best graduate schools. Graduate programs in the biological sciences overall tied for 18th in the magazine's "Best Graduate Schools" issue...
Chicago neuroscientist contributes to book on brains and baseball Steven Small, professor of neurology and psychology at the University of Chicago, and colleagues Ana Solodkin and John Milton, are among a group science writers and neuroscientists featured in Your Brain On Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans, a new book that explores how the brain functions when people participate in sports as athletes, coaches and fans...
Breast cancer in black women may be connected to neighborhood conditions
Researchers at the University of Chicago are studying possible connections between living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and the development of early onset breast cancer in a path-breaking project led by Sarah Gehlert, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University...
Researchers at the University of Chicago are studying possible connections between living in disadvantaged neighborhoods and the development of early onset breast cancer in a path-breaking project led by Sarah Gehlert, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University...
Newly developed anti-malarial medicine treats toxoplasmosisA new drug that will soon enter clinical trials for treatment of malaria also appears to be 10 times more effective than the key medicine in the current gold-standard treatment for toxoplasmosis, a disease caused by a related parasite that infects nearly one-third of all humans — more than two billion people worldwide...
New target for cancer therapy may improve treatment for solid tumorsTargeting and killing the non-malignant cells that surround and support a cancer can stop tumor growth in mice, reports a research team based at the University of Chicago Medical Center in the March 1, 2008, issue of the journal Cancer Research. The discovery offers a new approach to treating cancers that are resistant to standard therapy...
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