Award-winning neuroscientist Matthew Dalva, PhD has been appointed as director of the Tulane Brain Institute and the university’s newest Presidential Chair.

In the first-floor gallery of the Tidewater building on the downtown campus, Michael Moolekamp (left), a volunteer paramedic with Tulane Emergency Medical Services, administers a flu shot in the arm of Akhil Chandran, a first-year graduate student in the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

Over the next three years, Tulane University chemists will use a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a process for producing clean hydrogen from water and renewable energy

Researchers at Tulane University recently received $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health to find out if the same technology behind a successful Lyme disease vaccine for dogs can be formulated with immune-boosting nanoparticles to offer safe and lasting protection for people.

The collective seeks to improve the health and well-being of LGBTQ+ individuals through research, advocacy, initiatives, community engagement and collaboration. 

For the first time, researchers at Tulane University and Ochsner Health were able to genetically sequence carotid plaque tissue collected from patients within days after a stroke. The discovery could help researchers develop new tools to stop strokes from happening. 

A new Tulane study suggests that the link between bats and coronaviruses is likely due to a long-shared history, and that genetic information can help us prevent and manage future pandemics.