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bioMérieux announces FDA 510(k) clearance of game-changing, Utah-made diagnostic platform

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Global diagnostics company bioMérieux recently received FDA 510(k) clearance and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments for an innovative approach to diagnostics. This milestone continues the company’s mission to expand technology out of traditional laboratory settings and into locations closer to patients like urgent care and physician offices. The BIOFIRE® SPOTFIRE® System and its BIOFIRE® SPOTFIRE® Respiratory […]

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03.20.23

Utah’s graphics pioneers

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This story was originally published on @TheU. By Vince Horiuchi – public relations associate, College of Engineering They were a group of young, scrappy, but brilliant University of Utah computer science students and professors who changed the world. Ed Catmull. John Warnock. Jim Clark. Alan Kay. Ivan Sutherland. Martin Newell. They are a just a handful […]

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03.16.23

Academia in Action: Developing new treatment options

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Mental and neurological disorders are the world’s leading cause of disability, according to University of Utah biomedical engineering professor Jan Kubanek. Over the years, treatments have been developed for some of these disorders, but oftentimes these treatments are inadequate. “It’s a major issue because in about one in three cases across the board, when you […]

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03.14.23

Biological network helps body adapt to stresses on health

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This story was originally published on @TheU. By Julie Kiefer – associate director, science communications, University of Utah Health Every minute of every day, our body adapts to meet the needs of each moment. When we binge on carbs, exercise or become sick, chemical reactions inside our cells switch on, slow down or shift strategy so […]

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03.13.23

U, TikkunLev to accelerate heart-failure gene therapy

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Salt Lake City – The University of Utah, one of the nation’s leading research universities, and TikkunLev Therapeutics, a gene therapy company, have announced a new partnership to accelerate an innovative heart failure gene therapy. The agreement is an exclusive world-wide license and includes a sponsored research program to support future FDA filings.The discovery of […]

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03.07.23

Academia in Action: ‘A totally different direction’

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As TingTing Hong says, “the career of a researcher is up and down.” Hong, an associate professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Utah, studies the structural organization of cardiomyocyte, or heart muscle cells, and how these structures impact heart function. In her research, Hong and her lab identified a microdomain organized by […]

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03.07.23

Call for workshop and presentation proposals for 2023 UEDA summit in SLC

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The University of Utah is excited to host the upcoming 2023 University Economic Development Association (UEDA) Annual Summit on October 8-10. With the summit just over eight months away, UEDA has issued a call for workshop and presentation proposals. Topics should be centered around the summit’s theme “Innovation for a Sustainable Future” and the concept […]

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03.01.23

Academia in Action: ‘You gotta follow your dreams’

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“This is not something that happened overnight,” said Dr. Gerald Gleich, a professor of dermatology and medicine at the University of Utah, about the research he’s done around a relatively new disease called eosinophilic esophagitis. It all started over 57 years ago in 1965 when Gleich took a job at the Mayo Clinic. “Mayo Clinic […]

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02.28.23

Women’s Week 2023: Making Public Policy Personal

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This story was originally published on @TheU. By Matilyn Mortensen – communications specialist, University of Utah communications The University of Utah’s annual Women’s Week kicks off this week with a theme of “Making Public Policy Personal.” Throughout the week, a series of events organized by the Division of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in partnership with various […]

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02.27.23