Medical Bulletin | Fall 2009
Features
Great expectations
The potential to transform medicine looms large as the Stem Cell Institute embarks on its second decade of discovery
Closing the gap
University researchers combat health disparities that put some groups at higher risk for diabetes
Stimulating lessons
Masonic Cancer Center scientists make the most of federal funds to engage teachers and students in hands-on research
Departments
Medical School News
- Medical School makes leadership changes
- University hospitals rank among nation’s best
- U researchers get $8.4 million grant to study deadly lung disease
- Risk of childhood cancer increases slightly with mother’s age, study finds
- UMPhysicians appoints new CEO
- U researchers discover new treatment to slow eye damage in people with type 1 diabetes
- Feelings of hopelessness linked to women’s stroke risk
- University researcher to jointly lead $9.5 million NIH study on chronic graft-versus-host disease
- Research finds new way to curb compulsive hair-pulling
Global Outreach
Alumni Connections
- Alumni Spotlight: Joy Ngobi, M.D., M.P.H., Crafting hope for her hometown
- Reunion Weekend: Catching up with classmates
- Mentor program leads to valuable connections
- Medical School–Duluth Campus celebrates its charter anniversary
- Scholarship Winner: Rebecca Johnson, Career-defining detours
- School of Nursing celebrates 100 years
- In memoriam
