For the past 14 years, graduate students at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) have had the chance to show off their research accomplishments at the Dawn Marks Research Day. This year’s event, held on June 4 in Temple’s Medical Education and Research Building, attracted 200 attendees and featured 49 student poster exhibits and 11 oral presentations.
Raj Kishore, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM), is harnessing the communications vesicles excreted by stem cells and using them to induce the damaged heart to repair itself.
It’s long been known that scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in patients with chronic itch. Now, researchers in the Department of Dermatology and Temple Itch Center at Temple University School of Medicine may be closer to understanding why.
Susan E. Wiegers, MD, FACC, FASE, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, has taken the helm as president of the 16,000 member American Society of Echocardiography.
Research talent of the Department of Medicine’s young physicians was once again on display at the 2015 Annual Sol Sherry Fellows and Residents Research Symposium, held on June 10 in Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Medical Education and Research Building (MERB).
Two former faculty members and pioneers in the field of research dermatology have made a combined gift of $1 million to Temple University School of Medicine's (TUSM) Department of Dermatology.
Temple University Hospital took part in a major international, randomized clinical trial which found that HIV-infected individuals have a considerably lower risk of developing AIDS or other serious illnesses if they start taking antiretroviral drugs immediately upon diagnosis rather than later.
Temple University Hospital is the only hospital in the nation participating in a Phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate a new treatment method for patients who suffer from severe tricuspid regurgitation.