50 years after the discovery of 'Lucy,' the skeleton of an ancient relative of modern humans, experts including UChicago's Zeray Alemseged reflect upon her impact on our understanding of the past — and her relationship to later-discovered hominins. science.org/content/articl…

Prof John Alverdy is awarded the Medal for Scientific Achievement by the American Surgical Association American Surgical, one of the highest honors from the oldest and most distinguished surgical society in the nation. UChicago Surgery @uchicago The University of ChicagoMed

With 22 op-eds published externally over 2 years, the op-ed writing curriculum developed by Pritzker students and V. Ram Krishnamoorthi has delivered strong engagement in written advocacy by medical students. More on the curriculum as featured in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine here:
pritzker.uchicago.edu/news/jgim-op-e…

UChicago expert Evgeny Izumchenko contributed to research that used generative AI-driven drug discovery methods to identify a small-molecule TNIK inhibitor that targeted fibrosis across different organs in preclinical and clinical studies. nature.com/articles/s4158…

The Feed1st project by the Lindau Lab has become a model for helping patients with food insecurity when they need it most. blog.nimhd.nih.gov/insights-2024/…

Congratulations to Data for the Common Good (home of the PCDC) on being selected as one of five winners of the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

UChicago researchers helped use single-cell RNA-seq to build a complete map of adult motor neurons in a classic animal model, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of adult-onset diseases of the nervous system. Read more: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/motor-neu…

Epigenetic markers tell stories! Researchers measured DNA methylation in tissue samples from former smokers, revealing just how deep the genetic and cellular impacts of smoking can go. Learn more on our blog: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/tissue-sa…

Greg Dwyer has spent decades studying invasive species to uncover the relationship between defoliation, insect populations, climate change, and the spread of viruses. Learn more about his lab's work in this profile: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/greg-dwye…

Pulmonary expert Deji Adegunsoye, MD, PhD is first author on a new study that shows reliance on race-specific equations in lung function tests may exacerbate disparities in treatment options for pulmonary fibrosis patients.

Read the paper here: atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.151… #HealthEquity

Current gene therapy options like CRISPR technology are exciting, but they all have downsides, too. UChicago researchers report on a new approach to treating pathogenic missense mutations using custom mischarged tRNA. Check out our research highlight: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/missense-…

Congrats to UChicago grad Sherzod Tokamov on receiving the Genetics Society of America Larry Sanders Award, honoring outstanding recent graduates who have completed a PhD in an area of Drosophila research. genestogenomes.org/tagc-2024-earl…

2024 Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards: Congratulations to James LaBelle, MD, PhD, UChicago Pritzker School of Medicine, on the study 'CRISPR-Cas9 Editing of the HBG1 and HBG2 Promoters to Treat Sickle Cell Disease'! i.mtr.cool/kmlwtdqgxl #Top10ClinicalResearchAwards

Our food often contains antibiotics as one way of keeping it fresh longer. But new analysis of a common preservative used to kill pathogens in food shows that it affects beneficial bacteria as well, threatening the healthy balance of the gut microbiome. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/food-pres…

Congratulations to The Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center on receiving a Distinguished Achievement Award for the FASEB DataWorks! Prize for their project to create sharable curated, and diverse medical images at scale