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The School of Medicine last week recognized 3 individuals to receive the "2015 Research Staff Appreciation Award." The Clinical Research honor was given to GIM's Pam Gentry in acknowledgement of he

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Nelson Chao, MD, MBA, professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Hematological Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, was feat

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The School of Medicine Office for Faculty Mentoring will host K Day on Thur., Jan. 14, 2016. 

Two research staff members from the Department of Medicine have received a School of Medicine “Research Staff Appreciation Award,”  in recognition of their exemplary support in the conduc

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Dr. John Perfect estimates a million cases of cryptococcal disease per year, with 600,000 deaths, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa where AIDS causes widespread immunosuppression. People can develop respiratory symptoms, like pneumonia; if the pathogen crosses the blood-brain barrier, the infection progresses to terrible, long-lasting headaches and sometimes fever. There can even be other neurological signs; cryptococcus can actually cause dementia. The problem is, even though we understand that Cryptococcal disease occurs in the immunosuppressed, we don’t know quite how the fungus sneaks through the blood-brain barrier.