School of Medicine

Researchers at the School of Medicine are seeking volunteers who are slightly overweight or who have elevated blood pressure. They want to see whether it’s possible to reduce the progression of atherosclerosis in healthy people by giving low doses of the malaria drug chloroquine.

Arthur Kornberg, M.D., former chair of microbiology at the School of Medicine and a Nobel Prize winner, died Oct. 26. He was 89.

School of Medicine scientists have used a drug to block seizure-induced structural changes in brain cells in laboratory animals.

School of Medicine scientists have found an approach to diabetes that has promise for curing the disease in humans.

Samuel A. Canaan Jr., M.D., assistant professor emeritus of clinical ophthalmology and visual sciences, died Friday, Oct. 19 at age 85.

Photo by Robert BostonResearchers presented posters of their basic, clinical and translational research at the Research Training Symposium and Poster Session Oct. 25.

F. Sessions Cole, M.D., has been awarded a nearly $2 million, five-year grant to establish a career development program in the genetics and genomics of lung disease.

School of Medicine researchers have shown that a vaginal progesterone gel may improve infant outcomes in high-risk pregnancies.

A School of Medicine faculty member has written a book about how she overcome her anxiety and panic attacks.

Normal lung air passage (left) and asthmatic lung air passage after viral infectionBabies who get severe respiratory viral infections are much more likely to suffer from asthma as they get older. Now researchers at the School of Medicine have pinpointed a key step in the development of asthma in mice after a severe respiratory infection. They suggest that medications designed to interfere with this mechanism could potentially prevent many cases of childhood asthma.