Donors give $2 million to help Tulane faculty more aggressively compete for research dollars
October 22, 2019
The process of securing grants will get easier for Tulane University researchers thanks to a substantial gift from Tulane alumna and board member Elizabeth “Libby” Alexander and her husband Robert Alexander. The couple pledged $2 million to set up a fund to support faculty and the university’s research grant proposal development initiatives so that researchers can spend more time pursuing world-changing discoveries.
Cowen Institute releases 2019 What Do Parents Think? poll
October 16, 2019
The Cowen Institute at Tulane University released What Do Parents Think?, a survey that chronicles community perceptions of public education in New Orleans after the first academic year of charter school unification under the Orleans Parish School Board.
Tulane researcher receives grant to improve diagnostic tools for congenital Chagas disease
October 15, 2019
Claudia Herrera, PhD, researcher at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, will lead a team of researchers in developing more reliable tools for the diagnostic and genotyping for congenital Chagas disease.
Study finds topsoil is key harbinger of lead exposure risks for children
October 14, 2019
Tracking lead levels in soil over time is critical for cities to determine lead contamination risks for their youngest and most vulnerable residents, according to a new Tulane University study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Tulane researcher is editor of journal issue honoring 40th anniversary of key cancer discovery
October 01, 2019
Leading p53 researcher Hua Lu, PhD, of Tulane University School of Medicine, was chosen to edit a special edition of the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology dedicated to the history of p53 research. The issue includes articles and perspectives from some of the world’s top research scientists from Princeton’s Institute of Advanced Study, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Northwestern and other universities along with St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Tulane ByWater Institute hosts coastal research workshop
September 24, 2019
Faculty from across the university showcased their research and community engagement work that explores the resilience of coastal ecosystems and communities.
Tulane University releases first report benchmarking New Orleans startup activity
September 20, 2019
Tulane University’s A. B. Freeman School of Business released the results of the 2019 Greater New Orleans Startup Report, the first comprehensive overview of the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
SMART-REU program gives undergraduates valuable research experience
September 19, 2019
It’s a valuable opportunity when undergraduates can collaborate on research with university faculty, and programs like the Summer Materials Research at Tulane – Research Experience for Undergraduates (SMART-REU) are creating more such possibilities. The SMART-REU is a 10-week summer program that brings in undergraduate students from across the country and pairs them with Tulane faculty in chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, chemistry or physics/engineering physics.
Cancer cells turn to cannibalism to survive chemotherapy
September 18, 2019
Researchers from the Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that some cancer cells survive chemotherapy by eating their neighboring tumor cells. The study, which was published in the Journal of Cell Biology, suggests that this act of cannibalism provides these cancer cells with the energy they need to stay alive and initiate tumor relapse after the course of treatment is completed.
Tulane University student spends summer conducting brain tumor research in Switzerland
September 17, 2019
Tulane University senior James Rogers has been charting a course in the name of research since he arrived on campus in the fall of 2016. Rogers’ journey has led him from New Orleans to Bethesda, Md., and across the Atlantic Ocean to Scotland and, most recently, Switzerland, where he spent this past summer as a visiting research scholar in the Brain Tumor Center at the University Hospital Zürich (USZ).
Tulane researcher awarded $1.9 million to study mosquitoes that transmit viruses
August 27, 2019
Patricia Scaraffia, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Tropical Medicine, will study the mechanistic regulation of ammonia metabolism in mosquitoes that transmit Zika, dengue, yellow fever and chikungunya viruses.
Keck Foundation awards Tulane University $1 million to study why women have stronger immune systems than men
August 27, 2019
Do women have an extra line of defense in their immune systems that gives them an advantage over men in fighting infections? That’s one of the questions Tulane University researchers hope to answer using a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to study how sex differences shape disparate immune responses in men and women. The goal is to learn more about how immune systems evolved differently in the two sexes and to use this information to eventually create more precise treatments for men and women against various diseases.
Tulane researcher receives national honor for work in energy materials
August 27, 2019
A Tulane University materials physics and engineering scientist is one of only 10 scientists being honored nationally by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Researchers awarded $2.3 million for virus-related malignancies research
August 14, 2019
Members of Tulane Cancer Center's Flemington Lab team were awarded two grants to investigate how circular RNAs contribute to Epstein-Barr herpesvirus-associated cancers.
Tulane researcher working to turn waste to fuel wins NSF Career Award
August 12, 2019
Nicholas Sandoval, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Tulane University, is the recipient of National Science Foundation Early Career Award.