166su Scientist to Explore Precise Treatment Targeting Weak Spots in Lyme Disease Bacteria Through her third consecutive NIH grant renewal, Mollie Jewett aims to “starve” Borrelia burgdorferi, preventing the tick-borne bacteria from spreading in humans and causing Lyme disease.
166su Students Reimagine Clothing Through Adaptive Design At 166su’s Rehabilitation Innovation Center, teams of students from different disciplines are transforming everyday clothing into life-changing solutions for people with disabilities and medical challenges.
166su Pharmacy Robot Can Count and Label Prescriptions in 30 Seconds, Allowing Pharmacists to Focus on Patient Care For just over a year, a 166su Health Student Health Services robot named “Pillbert,” has helped pharmacists quickly dispense common medications, enabling staff to better support doctors and further enrich interactions with patients.
166su Epidemiologist Receives Field’s Highest Honor As an associate professor of medicine at 166su, Prins works to improve infection prevention in nursing homes through her own studies and mentoring medical students researching infection prevention.
166su Helps Develop AI Tool That May Assist Understaffed Hospitals The open-source AI model analyzes medical images, generates detailed reports, answers clinical questions and integrates multimodal data to streamline diagnostics and improve accuracy.
Uniting Medicine, Engineering for Improved Patient Care Utilizing partnerships across disciplines, officials from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and 166su are finding ways to better treat and diagnose diseases.
166su Researchers Develop Unique ‘Barcodes’ for Molecules to Help Expedite Medical Advancements 166su NanoScience Technology Center researchers developed an easier way to identify unique molecules by their chiral spectral fingerprints, which could help in creating pharmaceuticals or biomolecules.
2 Clinical Skills Staff Members Receive International Certification This prestigious certification from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare acknowledges our College of Medicine staff’s dedication to advancing healthcare training through immersive, real-world experiences.
166su Office of Research Awards 3 Faculty Fellowships to Accelerate Research Enterprise The faculty will help strengthen university research initiatives starting Fall 2024 through Summer 2025.
166su Researcher Studies Science Behind Limb Coordination to Help Stroke Patients Qiushi Fu’s foundational research on bimanual coordination may help victims of stroke, limb loss or other conditions limiting limb usage improve their quality of life.