Curiosity. It’s what Michael Welsh, MD, cites as a motivating factor at the heart of his extraordinary career dedicated to understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms behind cystic fibrosis (CF).
Research and Education
Research and Education
Michael Welsh, MD, has received the 2025 Canada Gairdner International Award for his research on cystic fibrosis (CF), which paved the way to new therapies that have transformed the health and life expectancy of people with CF.
A public health team from the University of Iowa is collaborating with partners across the state to share county-specific cancer data with residents in each of Iowa’s 99 counties. A U.S. News & World Report article in 2023 sounded the alarm for residents of a rural county in northwest Iowa. Palo Alto County, the report stated, had the second-highest rate of newly diagnosed cancers in the country …
The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine programs in physician assistant studies and physical therapy and rehabilitation science remain in the top five nationally—with the physician assistant program tied for the No. 1 spot—in the 2025-2026 edition of “Best Graduate Schools” from U.S. News & World Report. In its “Best Health Schools” and “Best Medical Schools” rankings, U.S. News lists…
Researchers at the University of Iowa are studying the sleep of premature babies to get the earliest look to date into how the twitches that occur during REM sleep shape the nascent communication between brain and body. William Kline was not interested in falling asleep. Instead, the 4-month-old was lying belly down on his baby blanket in the Sleep and Behavioral Development Lab on the University…
Match Day Q&A: Chandler Brown. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? I was never one to sit still in classrooms well, but I was good at school. I liked learning. I also really like sports. So, I thought, “Physical therapy is what you do if you're good at sports and good at school.” I started out majoring in athletic training with the intent to go to physical therapy school. But then,…
Once annually, the Office of the Vice President for Research reviews nominations for nine major awards that recognize faculty and staff excellence in research, scholarship, and creative activities. These awards, a part of the long-standing Discovery and Innovation Awards program, celebrate researchers and scholars who receive national recognition for forging new frontiers of discovery. The awards…
Match Day Q&A: Andrea Fjelstul-Bonert. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? When I was in fourth grade, my dad fell off the top of his semi-trailer. He was a semi-truck driver. He sustained some pretty significant injuries, and seeing him navigate the health care system coming from a rural community—whether that be trying to find a good primary doctor to coordinate things or traveling…
University of Iowa Health Care, in collaboration with Cooper University Health Care, has been awarded research funding by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to support a large clinical trial comparing two triage strategies for guiding thrombectomy, a life-saving intervention for patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes, the most severe and disabling subtype of…
Multiple sclerosis is a disease that results when the immune system mistakenly attacks the brain and spinal cord. It affects nearly one million people in the U.S. and over 2.8 million worldwide. While genetics play a role in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis, environmental factors such as diet, infectious disease and gut health are major contributors. The environment plays a key role in…