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School of Medicine Class of 2021 students match early in competitive military and urology programs By Kylee Denesha Michelle Shabo Six School of Medicine Class of 2021 students took part in early match programs and recently learned where they will serve their residencies. Two pursued military matches and four chose specialties outside of the National Residency Matching Program general match, which takes place on Friday, March 19. “This has been a residency match year that has been extraordinarily challenging for everyone, presenting each student with much more than t...

IOWA CITY — Iowa’s public universities for years have touted the billions they bring to the state through research and innovation; student, visitor and alumni spending; new jobs; and inbound migration — citing those boons in seeking improved state support. But the Legislature has continued to cut appropriations and, with campus leaders again re-upping pleas for more money, GOP lawmakers this session are seeking more evidence and oversight of the Board of Regents’ boasts through proposed legislation. One proposal would require university faculty to “conspicuously” disclose sponso...

Dr. Terence S. Dermody is the Vira I. Heinz Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dermody received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his M.D. degree from Columbia University. He completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York and fellowships in infectious diseases and molecular virology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh in 2016, Dr. Dermody w...

Jacob “Jake” Files COVID-19, which has killed 1.7 million people worldwide, does not follow a uniform path.  Many infected patients remain asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Others, especially those with comorbidities, can develop severe clinical disease with atypical pneumonia and multiple system organ failure.  Since the first cases were reported in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has surged into a pandemic, with cases and deaths still mounting. Ongoing observational clinical research has become a priority to better understand how this previously unknown viru...

Study reveals the role of SETD2 protein in cancer cells, cell migration, and autophagy SETD2 is a protein well known as a chromatin remodeler, one that helps turn genes on or off by modifying histone proteins in the nucleus of the cell. When researchers discovered that SETD2 is mutated or lost in several cancer types, most commonly a type of kidney cancer called clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, all eyesCytoskeleton' turned toward SETD2 function in the nucleus of the cell to explain these cancers. In 2016, the lab of Dr. Cheryl Walker, director of the Center for Precision Environmental Health ...