Health & Medicine
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March 16, 2022
Symposium on March 25 to explore future of RNA therapeutics
Following the success of mRNA vaccines against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine’s annual symposium will explore what other applications might result from RNA research.
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March 9, 2022
University to drop mask mandate for most indoor spaces March 14
U-M will make masking optional starting March 14 for most indoor spaces on campus, including offices, residence halls and athletic events. Masks will remain required in classrooms, buses and some other areas.
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March 9, 2022
Michigan Drug Discovery aids new projects to treat obesity, cancer
Michigan Drug Discovery will support four early-stage drug discovery projects to aid work in the Life Sciences Institute’s Center for Chemical Genomics and Natural Products Discovery Core.
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March 7, 2022
Updates to ResponsiBLUE include booster information
Significant updates — including new statuses to support U-M’s COVID-19 booster requirement — have been made to ResponsiBLUE, the campus community’s health-screening tool.
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February 23, 2022
How well do boosters work? Depends on your genes
Genetics play an important role in how our bodies respond to vaccines and booster shots, suggesting certain protective responses elicited by vaccination could be more effective with personalization, a new study says.
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February 14, 2022
Arul Chinnaiyan awarded Sjöberg Prize for cancer research
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, the S.P. Hicks Professor of Pathology and Urology at Michigan Medicine, has been awarded the 2022 Sjöberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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February 8, 2022
Maternity care workers expressed anguish early in pandemic
Researchers from the School of Nursing and the Obstetrics Initiative at Michigan Medicine asked nurses, physicians and midwives across Michigan, “How has COVID-19 impacted your work?”
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February 4, 2022
University issues update on campus COVID-19 activity
The university says Ann Arbor campus COVID-19 activity is showing signs of sustained improvement, and that units will begin enforcing booster compliance.
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January 25, 2022
Q&A: What do we know about the omicron variant?
Laraine Washer, professor of internal medicine, answers some common questions about the highly contagious omicron variant and what being infected means.
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January 25, 2022
$10M gift, renaming of institute honor critical care field’s pioneer
Michigan Medicine will rename its critical care research institute after U-M alumnus Max Harry Weil, a pioneer in critical care medicine, to recognize his family’s $10 million donation for advancing research and innovation.
