The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1 million grant to Tulane University to launch an outreach initiative to reach ethnic and racial minority communities in Louisiana that are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University joins JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Commander’s Palace as presenting sponsors for the upcoming New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW). The festival will play a key role in the first-ever IDEApitch Winter Showcase – a free virtual event open to the public. The live broadcast will take place on Thursday, December 10, from 12-2 p.m. at Commander’s Palace. Click here to register for the event.
While having a robust immune response to coronavirus infection may sound helpful, Dr. Monica Vaccari, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane National Primate Research Center and lead author of a new study published in Nature Communications, says that the opposite may be true.
After a year when so many friends and family have spent months apart, will people let down their guard and ignore COVID-19 safety precautions because they can’t bear to forgo cherished holiday traditions?
A Tulane biomedical engineering team has won the People's Choice Award at the Collegiate Inventors Competition for its invention of an intubation cleaning device.
Tonya Hansel, an expert in disaster mental health and trauma at the School of Social Work, spoke with Tulane University’s new podcast, On Good Authority, to explain the impact that 2020 has had on people’s ability to sleep well.
Tulane University School of Medicine will be a testing site for the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson’s Phase III clinical research study of a new COVID-19 vaccine.
Tulane professor and author Walter Isaacson knew that the world-changing work of biochemist Jennifer A. Doudna was on par with the subjects of his previous books that include biographies of Leonado DaVinci and Steve Jobs. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences underscored this sentiment in a big way last week by awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry to Doudna, the central subject of Isaacson’s new book. Doudna shared the prestigious honor with her colleague, Emmanuelle Charpentier, for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
When COVID-19 began to spread across the United States last spring, Tulane University School of Medicine was prepared to fight the virus on many different levels.
Can the same strategies Tulane students learn in a popular life design course help people facing job changes or life disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic?