Researchers in the Tulane National Primate Research Center want to know more about why patients with HIV are highly susceptible to contracting tuberculosis (TB). Using two new grants, totaling $8.4 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Tulane team lead by Deepak Kaushal hopes to figure out how the bacterium that causes TB invades T-cells depleted by HIV. The researchers will also study if B-cells can be a source of protection against tuberculosis for patients battling HIV.

Chemical engineering professor Lawrence Pratt of Tulane University's School of Science and Engineering has won the American Chemical Society’s 2018 Joel Henry Hildebrand Award in the Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry of Liquids sponsored by Exxon-Mobil.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane University a five-year, $6.28 million grant to test ways to best implement new guidelines to more aggressively manage high blood pressure in adults, especially among low-income patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease.  

From breast reconstruction for cancer survivors to more accurate and easier to perform biopsies and more rapid viral diagnostics for the cattle industry, Tulane doctoral students in bioinnovation and biomedical engineering are taking their inventions from the laboratory to the marketplace.

Community health workers using proactive strategies such as home visits, health coaching, home blood pressure monitoring and other tactics were more successful in helping low-income patients control their hypertension than doctors using traditional approaches, according to new Tulane University research published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Tulane researchers use specimens to search for the genes that cause facial anomalies in affected embryos.