Recent News

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  • Two College of Medicine Groups Awarded SPARK-VT Grants
    August 17, 2016 by Jennifer Nachbur
    As the new academic year is set to begin, the innovative work of four University of Vermont research teams - including two groups from the College of Medicine - is moving closer to the marketplace in the wake of a Shark Tank-like competition called SPARK-VT held earlier this summer.
  • Maguire Discusses How to Protect Your Skin This Summer and Beyond
    August 10, 2016 by Kevin Maguire
    First things first, what is the difference between UVA and UVB rays? Both UVA and UVB rays are forms of ionizing radiation from the sun. Both types of rays cause damage at the cellular level.
  • Spees’ New NIH Grant to Expand Study of Novel Post-Heart Attack Therapy
    August 10, 2016 by Carolyn Shapiro
    A heart attack continues to harm cardiac muscle even after the immediate problem – a blocked artery – is fixed, but University of Vermont researchers have developed a new biologic drug that can preserve blood vessels critical to the body’s blood-pumping system.
  • The Physicians of the Future: Meet the College's Class of 2020
    August 10, 2016 by Erin Post
    The University of Vermont College of Medicine welcomed its largest first-year class in history on August 8, 2016 for Orientation 2016, a week-long course that launches their medical school career. The Class of 2020’s 120 members were selected from roughly 6,000 applicants and 619 interviewees.
  • Meet a Scientist: Jessica Sheehe, CMB Graduate Student
    August 10, 2016 by Erin Post
    University of Vermont Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Sciences graduate student Jessica Sheehe has come to know all of the quirks of a protein called PKG: She’s responsible for expressing and purifying PKG in the lab and ensuring that the billions of insect cells tricked into producing this protein remain healthy.

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