Recent School of Medicine News

Mar 05, 2014
Categories: School of Medicine,Featured
An $800,000 grant will help KU Medical Center create a new center to help patients with multiple sclerosis
A grant will help KU Medical Center create the Comprehensive Center for Multiple Sclerosis Care

Feb 19, 2014
Categories: Featured,Outreach,School of Medicine
Argentine neighborhood grocery store opens with help from KU Medical Center researchers
Ku Medical Center's Kim Kimmanau and Natty Mabachi play a part in opening a new grocery store in the Argentine neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas

Feb 11, 2014
Categories: Featured,School of Medicine
Medical student writes of experience working at women's clinic in Syrian refugee camp
Hannah Anderson writes about her experience in The Atlantic

Feb 05, 2014
Categories: Cancer Center,Featured,Research,School of Medicine
Researchers establish benefits of high-dose vitamin C for ovarian cancer patients
Qi Chen, Ph.D., Jeanne Drisko, M.D., and team at the University of Kansas Medical Center say clinical trial shows benefits of complementary treatment

Jan 31, 2014
Categories: Research,Featured,School of Medicine
Researchers use time-lapse movies to track early cardiovascular development
Developmental biologists Charles Little and Brenda Rongish work with biological physicist András Czirók to produce the movies

Jan 14, 2014
Categories: Featured,School of Medicine,Research
KU Medical Center researchers receive more than $10 million to pursue new translational research projects
University of Kansas Medical Center will use more than $10 million from the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to conduct three projects that will help deliver new cures and therapies to patients faster

Jan 07, 2014
Categories: School of Medicine,Featured
Robert Simari named executive dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine
Simari, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, is a 1986 graduate of the KU School of Medicine

Jan 06, 2014
Categories: School of Medicine,General Information
Michael Artman named chair of KU pediatrics
Michael Artman, M.D., pediatrician-in-chief and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Mercy and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, also will serve as chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine

Jan 03, 2014
Categories: Cancer Center,Research,School of Medicine
Dr. Andrew Godwin is studying the role exosomes play in the metastasis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Research by Andrew Godwin on how exosomes influence the metastasis of gastrointestinal stromal tumors is published in PNAS