News at USA Health

National study is seeking those who have had COVID and those who haven’t.

Christopher Davies’ team will work to determine the molecular structures of PBP2 from cephalosporin-resistant strains of N. gonorrhoeae and also examine their properties biochemically.

USA College of Medicine faculty member Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., discusses new research on the disease-spreading parasites for the CDC podcast Emerging Infectious Disease.

Ji Young Lee, M.D., Ph.D., a pulmonary and critical care physician with USA Health, is studying the fundamental mechanisms of pH regulation in pulmonary endothelial cells, which line the blood vessels of the lungs.

Researchers identified MYB as a target protein of interest in the treatment of certain prostate cancer patients.

Santanu Dasgupta, Ph.D., will use a $126,000 grant from the Elsa U. Pardee Foundation to explore early epigenetic changes in cervical cancer with a goal of developing improved prevention strategies.

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama grants often act as seed funding for developing studies, allowing scientists to generate data needed to obtain major national funding.

An article about the “breakthrough research” was published in the October issue of the scientific journal Cell Reports.

The work by Annelise Wilhite, M.D., and the Gynecologic Oncology Lab at the MCI was awarded the Best Fellow Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Gynecologic Oncology Society recently.

USA Health now offers two in-house molecular oncology tests for cancer patients that can detect mutations directly from tumor tissue and cytology specimens.

The project led by Steve Lim, Ph.D., is aimed at reducing plaque-building macrophages by inhibiting focal adhesion kinase activity.

Meghan Hermance, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the USA College of Medicine, was awarded a $423,500 grant to evaluate the ability of the Asian longhorned tick to maintain and transmit diseases typically found in North America.