The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine has been awarded a $1.7 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a research program to develop a treatment strategy for hemorrhagic shock that can be administered in conjunction with initial resuscitation efforts by combat medics on the battlefield or in medical […]
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create the Heartland Health Network (HHN) — a coalition of community partners working together to address health disparities by promoting wellness and facilitating health research in the African American community. The grant was awarded […]
The Radiological Society of North America has selected University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine student Neil Thakur, MS 6, to make an oral presentation and receive a 2010 Trainee Research Prize for medical students during the 2010 RSNA Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, Nov. 28-Dec. 3, in Chicago. The RSNA Scientific Program Committee […]
The technological advances that led to the advent of target-based drug discovery in the 1990s enabled researchers to chemically target specific genes and molecules, thus allowing for the development of drugs that can be more precisely delivered. The drawback to this approach lies in the often time-consuming “hit-and-miss” process of matching the right drug with […]
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Medicine have been awarded a grant of more than $1.8 million for their research into the brain mechanisms responsible for drug abuse and addiction and other mental illnesses such as depression. The grant will support a lab led by John Wang, M.D., Ph.D., who is […]
Degeneration or acute damage of nerve cells in the brain and retina is a major cause of loss of quality of life and impairment in the United States and worldwide. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Vision Research Center (VRC) at Truman Medical Center have discovered some of the self-defense mechanisms these nerve […]
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