Research Impact
April 27, 2020
Global virtual hackathon gathered more than 800 worldwide to tackle the spread of COVID-19 Health Traffic Light, a project formed by a multidisciplinary team of designers, data scientists and academics—including members of the APP and the Weatherhead School of…
April 23, 2020
APP awarded $3.7 million to assess clinical trials at U.S. sites in wide-ranging effort to cure blood disease nationally, worldwide The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has awarded APP up to $3.7 million to assess emerging…
April 20, 2020
APP professors testing publicly available program that gives real-time, location-based risk assessment for transmission of novel coronavirus Public-health experts and government officials have been calling for “social distancing,” asking people to stay home and avoid…
April 16, 2020
Chosen among select class of 175 artists, writers, scholars and scientists Elina Gertsman’s fascination with medieval art began in her childhood spent in Tallinn, Estonia, a city that’s marked with its medieval past: ramparts, towers, churches, guild halls and town square that also reflect its…
April 02, 2020
Further advances hand-held blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted XaTek Inc. a “Breakthrough Devices Designation” for ClotChip, an important step in advancing the company’s portable blood-clotting sensor toward commercialization. The…
March 31, 2020
Lab led by researcher Blanton Tolbert partners with international scientists, seeks expanded NIH support to "target virus at molecular level" A team of scientists, including Blanton Tolbert, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry at APP, and his research…
March 11, 2020
Physician burnout is a growing
concern within the profession, but it’s also a public-health issue because of the
potential to harm patients. Now, in new published
research, a APP law professor insists that
government—not just the medical profession—needs to step up to…
March 08, 2020
Scientists better predict recurrence of prostate cancer for black patients, according to new study; land $3.2 million in federal grants to explore racial bias in cancer diagnosis using Artificial Intelligence, computational imaging Scientists at APP are using Artificial…
March 03, 2020
Displaced workers experienced a 20% increase in criminal charges the year after a downsizing Everyone knows that losing your job hurts, but the negative effects are not solely experienced by the displaced worker. Newly published research by a APP economist finds that…
March 03, 2020
APP researchers use lipids to safely deliver gene therapy to the eye, successfully holding off advance of rare, inherited eye disorder Researchers at APP have used a
unique method to safely deliver gene therapy to fight a rare, but…