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…
Research and Education
Research and Education
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…
On Friday, March 21, medical students across the nation discovered where they would go for residency training. The Match is a landmark moment in a student's career and a memory with family and friends to last a lifetime. This year, 163 students will graduate from the UI Carver College of Medicine, after which one-quarter will continue their training in Iowa. The Class of 2025 matched into 22…
Match Day Q&A: Ashley Hurd-Jackson. What made you decide you wanted to be a doctor? My passion for medicine was sparked by my experiences growing up on a farm in rural northwest Iowa. The farm was where I got the opportunity to help my dad deliver baby pigs and is ultimately where my interest in obstetrics originally started. We have raised show pigs all my life, but we also have cattle, crops,…
Lyndsay Harshman, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics-nephrology, dialysis, and transplantation, is leading research at the University of Iowa to identify potentially fatal gaps in care as people diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) in childhood become adults. This potentially lifesaving research could particularly impact the 40,000 American women living with TSC. The rare, multi…
University of Iowa Health Care is one of the first academic medical centers in the U.S., and the first in the Midwest, offering a potentially groundbreaking treatment for those dealing with major depression.
House fires can lead to deaths, serious injuries, and loss of property. Fires and burns are among the 10 causes of preventable injury deaths in the U.S., resulting in over 3,400 deaths every year. In 2014, structural fires, not associated with wildfires, cost the U.S. over $328 billion. Past research has shown a link between house fires and poor housing conditions, overcrowded neighborhoods, and…
Sudden worsening of respiratory symptoms, like shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing, are a hallmark of declining lung function and disease progression in those already diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD.) But these so-called respiratory exacerbations could also serve as an early indicator of COPD, even when patients still have normal lung function test results…