From elections to holiday shopping safety, faculty make headlines
November 30, 2018
Several national media outlets reached out to our Tulane faculty for their expertise this week. See what they had to say in the latest Tulane News in Review video.
Tulane professor receives NIH supplement for Alzheimer’s research
November 20, 2018
There are 5.7 million people living with Alzheimer’s disease, according to Alzheimers.org, and the dreaded disease has caused more deaths than both breast and prostate cancer combined. Finding a cure is paramount.
Research teams awarded funding to fight health disparities in the Mississippi Delta
November 16, 2018
A new consortium backed by Tulane University, the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has awarded collaborative research grants to two teams of investigators fighting health disparities in the Mississippi Delta.
Tulane study finds neurotic or introverted men more likely to be distressed after cancer diagnosis
November 13, 2018
Men who are neurotic or introverted are more likely to be distressed after their prostate cancer diagnosis, according to a new study by researchers at Tulane University.
Children’s Hospital to partner with Tulane University School of Medicine
November 01, 2018
Children’s Hospital and Tulane University School of Medicine have signed an affiliation agreement to work together on clinical, academic and research activities in pediatrics.
Lessons from Peru
October 25, 2018
Biomedical engineering students travel to Peru for health care insight.
Tulane team releases guide to best local food and nutrition work
October 23, 2018
Navigating the New Orleans food and nutrition scene just got easier. An interdisciplinary team at Tulane University recently developed the “Resource Guide to Innovative Work in Food & Nutrition in New Orleans.”
Tulane dean’s book honored as one of world’s best
October 18, 2018
A book co-authored by Iñaki Alday, dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture, has been named one of the world’s 10 best architectural books of 2018 by the Frankfurt Book Fair and Deutsches Architekturmuseum.
Tulane researchers launch sexual health website for young black men
October 17, 2018
A collaboration between the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and YEP Design Works, led to creation of a website specifically designed for young black men to promote sexual health and STI screening.
Tulane professor wins heart association’s excellence award
October 16, 2018
Dr. Paul Whelton, a clinical professor and the Show Chwan Health System Endowed Chair in Global Public Health at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, has been recognized with the American Heart Association 2018 Excellence Award for Hypertension Research. The award is considered one of the most prestigious awards for a researcher in the field of hypertension.
Prostate cancer patients target of new $1.6M Tulane study
October 16, 2018
Tulane researcher wins grant to develop a tool that could lower tumor recurrence in cancer patients.
Treatment for common STD doesn’t work for some women, study finds
October 05, 2018
A new study led by an infectious disease epidemiologist at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine could change the way doctors treat a common sexually transmitted disease.
Tulane researchers get $2.6 million to study pre-pregnancy Chagas disease treatment
October 02, 2018
More than six million people are currently infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that causes Chagas disease. Of those infected with the T. cruzi parasite, one million are women of reproductive age.
Study seeks agent that can overcome drug resistance
September 25, 2018
Nakhle Saba, MD, an assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Tulane University School of Medicine, recently received a one-year, $30,000 Ladies Leukemia League grant to study the role of a protein in the most common form of leukemia in children.
Hope for the dying
September 20, 2018
On Wednesday, Sept. 26, the Program in Medical Ethics and Human Values of Tulane School of Medicine will host professor, writer and bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan of New York University School of Medicine in a lecture titled “The Ethics of Compassion: Requests for Unapproved Drugs and the Right to Try.” The lecture is free and open to the public.