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UM/Jackson Trial Fights Liver Cancer with Natural Killer Cells 12.14.2010
Encarnacion Miranda knew he didn’t have long to live when, in October 2009, he learned that his liver, deeply scarred by the hepatitis C virus he had contracted from a blood transfusion years before, had triggered hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common liver cancer.
Miller School’s Tally for Federal Stimulus Grants Approaches $60 Million 12.09.2010
Closing out the federal fiscal year with another major award, the Miller School has received a total of 108 grants worth $58.8 million from the federal government’s infusion of research funds to stimulate the economy and accelerate promising medical breakthroughs..
UHealth/Miller Victory at the Emmys 12.06.2010
UHealth/Miller is the proud recipient of an Emmy Award for Stem Cell Therapy: Healing Force of the Future, the fourth episode in the television documentary series Breakthrough Medicine.
Portable Filter-based Microdevice Detects Circulating Tumor Cells 10.05.2010
A group of scientists and physicians, led by Richard J. Cote, M.D., professor and chair of pathology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has developed a novel filter-based microdevice that detects and characterizes circulating tumor cells, which "could transform the way cancer is diagnosed and treated," says Cote.
Senator Nelson Helps Secure $5.6 Million for The Miami Project 09.21.2010
On Monday, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson delivered the good news that a key Senate panel has approved $5.6 million for The Miami Project's advanced research into spinal cord and traumatic brain injury, the hallmark injury of U.S. soldiers serving overseas.