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January 19, 2022

Issue 027

MAKING CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE RESEARCH SPECTRUM—
FROM CELLS TO CLINICS TO COMMUNITIES—TO TRANSFORM HEALTH

With an impressive portfolio of impactful science and major awards, and a steady rise in grant funding, fiscal year 2022 is showing what we already know: University of Utah Health research is world-class. In this mid-year review, Associate Vice President for Research Willard Dere, M.D., highlights our scientists’ bright accomplishments.

U of U scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute are digging deeply into the ways in which cancer cells circumvent the usual limits on cell growth and figuring out how they evade the immune cells that have the potential to keep them in check.

STUDY EXPLORES IMPACTS OF UTAH'S AIR QUALITY ON AGING

Scientists at the Center of Excellence for Exposure Health Informatics are using machine learning and artificial intelligence to study the exposome, a measure of the lifelong effects of environment, diet, and lifestyle on the body.

In the loop

NOTEWORTHY

HAPPENINGS

Save the Date: GWSW, Writing Winning NIH Proposals with John Robertson (Mar 24)

OPPORTUNITIES

RESOURCES

SPOTLIGHT PUBLICATIONS

HEADLINES

'Software Instead of Pills': Video Game Developed at U of Utah to Treat Depression Receives $7.5 Million Grant (Salt Lake Tribune)
Predicting Preeclampsia from a Blood Test Holds Promise for Pregnancy Complications (STAT News)
Fact Check: The Theory That SARS-CoV-2 is Becoming Milder (NPR)
Infertility Treatments Aren't to Blame for Premature Births, Study Says (United Press International)
Pig Brain Cells May Have Cured a Sea Lion's Epilepsy. Are Humans Next? (National Geographic)
We Asked Scientists What the Omicron Variant is Going to Do to the United States (Salon)

Janet Iwasa, PhD: Animating the Invisible

Janet Iwasa, PhD, is a pioneer in the field of molecular animation. She and her Animation Lab give life to the invisible, showing how viruses and proteins in our cells look, move and interact. Meet Iwasa in this five-minute video and learn why scientists from around the world are coming to Utah to work with her.

Watch the Video

INFERTILITY TREATMENTS NOT TO BLAME FOR PREMATURE BIRTH

A study of more than 250,000 U.S. families finds that adverse birth outcomes in children conceived through medically assisted reproduction)—including techniques such as IVF treatment, artificial insemination, and fertility-enhancing drugs—are unlikely due to treatment.

QUICK RECOVERY COMMON AFTER RARE MYOCARDITIS SIDE EFFECT

Most young people under the age of 21 who developed suspected COVID-19 vaccine-related heart muscle inflammation known as myocarditis had mild symptoms that improved quickly, according to U of U Health-led research published in Circulation.

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