Research at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
Research at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine
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Where Discovery and Innovation Meet Medicine
We bring diverse disciplines together to innovate and expand what medicine is and what it can do. Faculty and students come here to do impactful research that will be felt everywhere.
SFESOM is proud to be ranked among the top 35 public institutions for research (US News & World Report) and an integral part of the only academic medical center in the Mountain West.
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This annual event showcases six rising star faculty who are at the forefront of their professions.
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This event highlighted eleven outstanding investigators within four years of their first appointment in the School of Medicine.
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The protein appears to cause liver damage by triggering an out-of-place antiviral immune response. Blocking this pathway can protect against liver injury in human cells and mouse models, even on a high-fat diet—paving the way for therapies to prevent liver damage.
University of Utah Health has been awarded $30 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to lead a large clinical study focused on identifying the most effective treatment for AWS. The study will compare phenobarbital, a newer treatment approach, with benzodiazepines, the established standard of care.
The University of Utah dedicated its new $215 million Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, a state-of-the-art facility designed to expand physician training, advance medical education and research, and strengthen...
A new study has found that almost 90% of Americans believe that it’s always best to take the full course of antibiotics, even when you feel better—consistent with long-running but now outdated health campaigns. The reality is more complicated. Sometimes shorter courses are safer, and sometimes longer courses are best.
Researchers are combining genetic studies of Utah families with AI-based molecular biology tools to find new medications that may ultimately help treat OA at its source.
Researchers have made the first single cell map of the gene regulatory networks that drive heart failure, revealing crucial information to help develop better heart failure treatments.
In mice, a brain protein called Arc helps spread toxic molecules from sick brain cells to healthy ones. If therapies could be designed to target the spread, they could be...
Repeated exposure to combinations of common air pollutants in early pregnancy is associated with nearly three times greater odds of early preterm birth.