Topics: College of Medicine Research

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Biomedical sciences student attends competitive NIAID program

Mar 23, 2018

Nathalie Fuentes, a third-year biomedical sciences PhD student at Penn State College of Medicine, was selected from among hundreds of students nationwide to participate in a program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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Fellowship equips investigators to engage the community in research

Mar 19, 2018

The Community-Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship Program, offered by Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is a yearlong opportunity that matches a researcher with a mentor. Gina Brelsford, PhD, is using the program to improve her study the role of religion and spirituality in coping by parents of children in the NICU.

Penn State College of Medicine MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program co-directors Leslie Parent, MD (left), and Robert Levenson, PhD (right), are seen with four of the five program students who matched with residencies during the March 2018 Match Day celebration. The students are, from left, Paul Hsu, Jeffrey Nguyen, Ron Panganiban and Francis LeBlanc. Nicholas Sterling, who also matched, is not pictured. The six people are seen standing in a line in a crowded room, smiling, wearing dress clothes, with their arms around each other.

MD/PhD students find residency matches

Mar 16, 2018

The five Penn State College of Medicine MD/PhD Medical Scientist Training Program students who are in their fourth year of medical training received their residency destinations during the March 2018 Match Day celebration.

Graduate Research Forum celebrates 30th anniversary

Mar 15, 2018

More than 120 graduate students, faculty members and alumni from Penn State College of Medicine came together to build relationships and exchange ideas at the 30th annual Graduate Research Forum held March 1 and 2, 2018.

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Women choose more effective contraception when cost not an issue

Mar 14, 2018

When cost isn't an issue, women will choose more effective, long-term methods of contraception, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

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Clinical research guidebook an example of strong collaboration

Mar 12, 2018

An extensive online guidebook has been created to help early-career to established Penn State researchers more easily navigate the clinical research process at Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Scott Graupensperger and Bethany Latten give a presentation during the 2017 summer Translational Science Fellowship, a highly interactive program for both medical and graduate students to receive a research foundation. They are pictured standing, facing a row of chairs, with the audience visible from behind. A presentation screen is to their left, with a slide titled "A new option for heart failure treatment" visible.

Summer fellowship in translational science provides research foundation

Mar 5, 2018

The Translational Science Fellowship offered through Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute gives a foundation in research to graduate students.

Penn State College of Medicine students work with a simulation arm to learn how to draw blood in a session in the Clinical Simulation Center in July 2016. The simulation arm is pictured in the center of the photo with tubes of red-dyed liquid leading to it. The hands of four students are seen around the simulation arm.

Simulation Education Research Fund

Feb 27, 2018

The Simulation Education Research Fund supports simulation-based educational research in two separate application processes: Simulation-based Education Program Development and Implementation, and Travel Support for Academic Dissemination of Simulation-based Research.

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Most PA students tobacco-free, but vaping and cigarette use still a concern

Feb 26, 2018

Most of Pennsylvania's high school and middle school students are tobacco-free, but the use of cigarettes and their digital counterpart, e-cigarettes, is still a cause for concern, according to Penn State researchers.

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Research to uncover factors behind bladder cancer progression receives ACS grant

Feb 21, 2018

The American Cancer Society has awarded a grant to study bladder cancer development to David DeGraff, assistant professor of pathology, surgery and biochemistry and molecular biology, and a member of Penn State Cancer Institute.

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