UR Medicine boosts women’s heart health UR Medicine is tackling the growing, life-threatening problem of heart disease in women with Upstate New York’s largest team of...
Finding cancer’s fingerprint Ding and her team are keeping Wilmot Cancer Institute at this leading edge of precision medicine. Working closely with Wilmot’s...
Students give special needs kids the gift of play Indeed, “it’s hard not to smile while doing this,” says Rachel Monfredo, a lecturer in chemical engineering at Rochester. Monfredo...
Caring for the whole person At the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry (SMD), Mike Kelly works hard to understand a patient’s life...
Accident survivor walks again At age 45 and in top-notch health, David Murphy relished time spent outdoors hunting, fishing, and riding his Harley-Davidson. But...
Nurse overcomes injury to become bodybuilding champion Beth Mandyck, a 55-year-old labor and delivery nurse, had reached some key goals in her chosen sport of bodybuilding, when...
Making the world a healthier place Chunlei Guo is an optical physicist and professor at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics. Ten years ago, he...
Lynne Maquat Elected to National Academy of Medicine Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., an internationally recognized researcher who studies what happens in our cells during disease, has been elected to...
Solving wicked problems Autism. Parkinson’s disease. Addiction. Fifteen percent of the world’s population suffers from a major neurological disorder. And if you’re not...
Addisu Mesfin: Caring for patients with spine tumors Orthopaedic spine surgeon Addisu Mesfin, M.D. is passionate about caring for patients with spine tumors—as both clinician and researcher interested...