Feb 19, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine assistant professor Andrea Hobkirk recently received a Young Investigator Grant from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for a collaborative project studying the problem of relapse after addiction treatment.
Feb 11, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine faculty received more than 40 grants at the end of 2019.
Feb 4, 2020
Dr. N. Benjamin Fredrick, professor of family and community medicine, public health sciences and humanities, became chair of The Doctors Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine in November.
Feb 3, 2020
A plant-based diet may be key to lowering risk for heart disease. Penn State researchers determined that diets with reduced sulfur amino acids were associated with a decreased risk for cardiovascular disease.
Jan 30, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine’s Early Career Research Award (ECRA) – previously called the Junior Faculty Research Scholar Award (JFRSA) – supports mentored research for early stage faculty at the Penn State College of Medicine.
Jan 29, 2020
Dr. Nasr Ghahramani's community-engaged research project compared patient quality of life and caregiver burden of those with chronic kidney disease who were mentored to those who were not.
Jan 20, 2020
Patient enrollment in clinical trials as the first course of treatment after cancer diagnosis is low, despite the fact that enrollment may increase life expectancy, according to researchers at Penn State.
Jan 3, 2020
Penn State College of Medicine faculty received more than $2 million in funds this fall to continue their work investigating novel cancer treatments, outcomes for adopted children and treatment of neurological disorders.
Dec 4, 2019
Researchers are still trying to find ways of catching pancreatic cancer early – or better yet, preventing it altogether. In the meantime, here’s what patients need to know.
Nov 27, 2019
Paula Valencia-Moulton and Aimee Merchlinski will present "Research Databases and Clinical Applications" at the next Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) Research Methods Seminar.
