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Mashup Score: 11
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have completed a first-in-human clinical trial testing a CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique to help the immune system fight advanced gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. The results, recently published in Lancet Oncology, show encouraging signs of safety and potential effectiveness of the treatment.
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Mashup Score: 34Advanced Heart Failure Symposium - 2 month(s) ago
We are proud to present the latest heart failure topics presented by industry-leading experts. Join us in expanding our knowledge in heart failure care, workup and treatments, imaging, remote monitoring, program building, and medical therapy for heart failure. Dr. Cogswell is the Section Lead of Advanced Heart Failure. She is also the medical director of the International Heart Lung Transplant Society’s Thoracic Transplant Registry. Dr. Ramu is the Director of both the Cardio-Obstetrics program and
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Mashup Score: 38Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program - 5 month(s) ago
The Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program consists of 12-months of training focused on the care of liver transplant recipients and patients with advanced liver disease. Fellows rotate on the inpatient hepatology, ambulatory hepatology and transplant surgery services. In addition, the ambulatory experience includes exposure to diagnostic radiology, interventional radiology, pathology and transplant infectious diseases. Additional educational experiences can be incorporated based on fellows’ clinical
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Mashup Score: 1Critical Care Cardiology Education Summit - 6 month(s) ago
The 3rd annual Critical Care Cardiology Education Summit (CCCES) will be held June 4-6, 2025, on the University of Minnesota – East Bank campus. The CCCES has been designed to address pressing issues related to reducing mortality in cardiogenic shock, pulmonary embolism, and cardiac arrest. Each year, a theme is cho sen to dive deeper into the literature, practices, and challenges that are routinely seen in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. CCCES 2025 will focus on Cardiac arrest management by bringing
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Mashup Score: 85New Parent/Caregiver Elective - 9 month(s) ago
Catalog description: This flexible rotation is designed to allow medical students who become new parents (i.e., birth, adoption, or foster) or are in the role of a caregiver to another child or adult (e.g., elder care, long-term care, rehabilitative care, etc), to spend additional time learning from and benefiting from their experience as a caregiver.
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Mashup Score: 2U of M study finds metformin reduces COVID-19 viral load, viral rebound - 11 month(s) ago
A team of University of Minnesota researchers found that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat diabetes, can decrease the amount of COVID-19 virus in the body and lower the chances of the virus coming back strongly after initial treatment. The study was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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Mashup Score: 0U of M-led study reveals shared blueprint in brain development across different functional areas - 1 year(s) ago
In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School investigated brain development to understand how different areas of the brain become specialized in handling information such as vision, sound, touch and planning.
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Mashup Score: 1University of Minnesota-led study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume - 2 year(s) ago
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (08/03/2023) — Published in the International Journal of Obesity, University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health researchers led a study on the relationship between dietary intake and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
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