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February 2021
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Check your email for the survey, sent to lab leaders on Jan 25th. They survey will give Jefferson a more complete picture COVID-19's impacts on our research. 

 
Media Highlight: Jefferson’s Cortimo Trial
 

CBS Sunday Morning reports on a clinical trial led by Drs. Rosenwasser and Serruya to explore how brain-computer interface implants could improve disability from stroke. 

 
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A Call for Action Against Racism in Medicine
by Karuna Meda
 

Worn from carrying the burden of fighting against racial injustice, a group of physicians pen a letter titled “Dear White People” asking colleagues in medicine to take up the cause of anti-racism. 

 
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Healthcare professionals taking a knee for racial injustice
 
How Can Researchers Contribute to Designing Cities That Will be Efficient, Healthy and Resilient?
by Patrick Monaghan
 

Research Portrait: Edgar Stach, designing the future of sustainable architecture today.

 
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Edgar Stach
Edgar Stach
 
An Unexpected, & Novel, Target for Prostate Cancer – Our Biological Clock
by Karuna Meda
 

Researchers find that CRY-1, a regulator of circadian rhythms, promotes tumor progression by altering DNA repair.

 
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Illustration of a damaged DNA strand
 
Anesthesiology, Engineering and Textiles Experts Team Up for ‘Gorilla Gown’ Creation
by Brian Hickey
 

The innovative effort is reimagining ways to protect patients’ body temperature before, during and after surgery.

 
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a gown worn by surgical patients
 
Communicating Information About COVID-19 Using 'Entertainment-Education'
by Karuna Meda
 

Researcher and student team up to explore a strategy that uses storytelling to creatively and effectively communicate about health issues. 

 
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Browse All Recently Highlighted Research
 

New Curriculum Nurtures Students’ Creative Side
Multiple | 1.4

A Call for Action Against Racism in Medicine
Foster | Family Medicine | 1.12

How Can We Better Measure Outcomes for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury?
Grampurohit | OT | 1.13

An Unexpected, & Novel, Target for Prostate Cancer – Our Biological Clock
Knudsen | Cancer | 1.15

Anesthesiology, Engineering and Textiles Experts Team Up for ‘Gorilla Gown’ Creation
Masoodi + Thaler | multi-disciplinary | 1. 15

Communicating Information About COVID-19 Using 'Entertainment-Education'
Riley | Pop Health | 1.20

What I Wish You Knew About My Endometriosis
Zale | Nursing | 1.20

Home Remedies for Endometriosis During COVID-19
Zale + Schlaff | Nursing + OBGYN | 1.20

How a ‘Shark Tank’-Inspired Contest Led to an Examination of Racism in Health Care
Shine | Medical School | 1.25

A Margin of Error
Alexander | Nursing | 1.26

How Can Researchers Contribute to Designing Cities That Will be Efficient, Healthy and Resilient?
Stach | Architecture | 1.26

Altered Protein Fate Contributes to Severe Neurodegenerative Disease
Merry | Biochem | 1.28

 
Independently Media Stories Highlighting Jefferson Experts:
 

India may be the only country with 4 vaccines in the pipeline, says Prakash Javadekar– Truth Dive
Schnell | Immunology | 1.2

Role for Somatic, Inherited Genetic Testing in Prostate Cancer Continues to Grow – OncLive
Gomella | Cancer + Urology | 1.3

Study Links Pellet Hormone Replacement Therapy to Acne and Anxiety– New Beauty
Xuezhi (Daniel) Jiang | OBGYN | 1.4

Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer: Part 1 of a Special Series-- Pulmonology Advisor
Okusanya | Surgery |

More research needed on neurostimulation techniques in migraine– Healio News
Silberstein | Neuro | 1.11

Circadian Rhythm Target Identified for Prostate Cancer– GEN
How a gene linked to the circadian clock could point to new prostate cancer treatments– Fierce Biotech
Analyzing the role of our circadian clocks in prostate cancer– LabRoots
The biological clock may hold the key to better prostate cancer treatments– Philly Voice
Knudsen | Cancer | 1.15

Real-World Patients May Have More Side Effects to Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Compared With Clinical Trial Data– Cure Magazine
Dicker | Cancer | 1.18

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Found Safe and Effective for Patients with Stiff Person Spectrum Disorder– Neurology Today
Dalakas | Neuro | 1.21

Meet a pioneer in stroke recovery (the Cortimo Brain-Computer Interface Trial) – CBS Sunday Morning
Rosenwasser + Serruya | Neuro | 1.31

 

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