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Great way to end this conference- with a full exploration and discussion of different perspectives on prolonging grief disorder.

Associate Professor Zhichao Wu's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Early Career Fellowship has powered his research towards making sure everyone with glaucoma receives an early diagnosis so they can start sight-preserving treatments - and was recently named in the NHMRC's 10 of the Best report. 👀 Read more about his research.

On this day in 1941, Pioneer of blood plasma research, Dr Charles Richard Drew, establishes a pioneer blood bank in New York City. #Surgeon #Scientist #Educator#AfricanAmerican #BloodBanks #BloodPlasma #RedCross Charles Richard Drew (June 3, 1904 – April 1, 1950) was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war. As the most prominent African American in the field, Drew protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as it lacked scientific foundation, and resigned his position with the American Red Cross, which maintained the policy until 1950. Drew was born in 1904 into an African-American middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father, Richard, was acarpet layerand his mother, Nora Burrell, trained as a teacher. Drew and three (two sisters, one brother) of his four younger siblings (three sisters and one brother total) grew up in Washington's largely middle-class and interracial Foggy Bottom neighborhood. From a young age Drew began work as a newspaper boy in his neighborhood, daily helping deliver over a thousand newspapers to his neighbors. Drew attended Washington's Dunbar High School which was well known for its equality and opportunities for all, despite the racial climate at the time. From 1920 until his marriage in 1939, Drew's permanent address was in Arlington County, Virginia,malthough he graduated from Washington's Dunbar High School in 1922 and resided elsewhere during that period of time. Drew won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he played on the football as well as the track and field team, and later graduated in 1926. After college, Drew spent two years (1926–1928) as a professor of chemistry and biology, the first athletic director, and football coach at the historically black private Morgan College in Baltimore, Maryland, to earn the money to pay for medical school. For his medical career Drew applied to Howard University, Harvard Medical School and later McGill University. Drew lacked some prerequisites for Howard University, and Harvard wanted to defer him a year, so to begin medical school promptly, Drew decided to attend McGill's medical school in Montreal, Canada.

🎙️Listen to our latest SurgOnc Today episode in which Brian Sparkman, MD, Lily Lai, MD, Margo Shoup, MD, MBA, and Kristen Massimino, MD, discuss how CGSO fellowships prepare surgeons for a career in community practice and how we might improve this in the future. https://ow.ly/bwjS50RAQIX

-You can't achieve anything without being a bit bold! says Dr Jacqui McGovern. Hear Jacqui talk about her passion for research and collaboration. Dr McGovern's research bridges #tissue #engineering and #cancer #biology to study cancer interacting within the #bone #microenvironment. While her research focuses on bone metastatic cancers including breast and prostate cancer - as well as bone resident tumours such as multiple myeloma - the primary focus is #osteosarcoma, the most common bone tumour. #WomenInTechnology #WomenInSTEM #WomenInTech #WomenInScience #STEM #science #biomedtech #stemcells #tissueengineering #CBT #QUTResearch

Speech Pathology 🧠 Brain Workouts PreHab becomes the secret weapon for success on the field, listen to Dr. Tabia Pope, Ph.D., CCC-SLP to learn how https://lnkd.in/e7mvw8sH

Upon returning to my beloved Göttingen, I consulted my mentor, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a renowned physicist during the late 18th century. Our discussion centered on the values we honor and the perceptions surrounding human legacy. Lichtenberg, who once taught Benjamin Franklin, highlighted that we build statues to those who advance humanity—visionaries, explorers, and innovators—while also acknowledging memorials that remind us of those who sought to stifle scientific inquiry and reason. He pointed me to a poignant memorial for Ernst August, King of Hanover, which symbolizes the king's attempts to silence the Göttingen Seven in 1837—scholars who fought for academic freedom. This contrast serves as a powerful metaphor for the legacies we create. We face a choice: to be remembered as champions of enlightenment, celebrated through statues, or as figures of oppression, memorialized by pedestals with the names of those lives destroyed and whose contributions were squashed. This dichotomy compels us to reflect on our societal contributions and the legacies we wish to leave behind. If you can’t choose, history shall choose for you!! #venturecapital #angelinvestor #cancer #hivaids  #bioOS #biotechnology #diagnostics #innovation #technology #management #startups #liquidbiopsy #neurodegenerativediseases #multiplesclerosis #parkinsonsdisease #alzheimersdisease #longhaulers #longcovid #humangenome #onetestonelife #longevity #artificialintelligence #rna #rnaseq #personalizedprevention #PersonalizedMedicine #ClinicalResearch #COVID19 #Parkinsons

🌟 Exciting News Alert! 🌟 A team of researchers at the University of Birmingham has been awarded a $15.5M contract by the U.S. Department of Defense for a groundbreaking concussion research program! The researchers will be analyzing a range of biomarkers to measure their ability to track long term complications from mild Traumatic Brain Injuries. With the support of the U.S. Department of Defense, the University of Birmingham is poised to make impactful strides in concussion research, potentially reshaping how concussions are managed not only within the military but also in civilian settings. This partnership underscores the importance of advancing the understanding and treatment of concussions, especially within military contexts. Hopefully soon, this research will help to revolutionize how we diagnose, treat, track, and prevent these injuries. Read more about this exciting development here: https://lnkd.in/e2FGxigj #HealthcareInnovation #MedicalResearch #ConcussionResearch #Diagnostics #Biomarkers #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #DoD #UniversityofBirmingham #TBI

With great pleasure I share our recent published article on "Spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical somatosensory network in typically developing children" published in Cerebral Cortex. In this piece of work, we examined the cortical somatosensory processing through magnetic source imaging and cortico–cortical coupling dynamics in typically developing children during unilateral pneumatic stimulation. We found that unilateral pneumatic stimulation evokes prominent and consistent activations in the contralateral primary and secondary somatosensory areas but weaker and less consistent activations in the ipsilateral primary and secondary somatosensory areas. Information flow is initially serial and later dynamic and parallel between the activated contralateral cortical areas. Our study helps us better understand the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical somatosensory processing in the normal human developing brain. I would like to thank my ex-mentee Yanlong Song, Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center, and Sadra Shahdadian, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cook Children's Health Care System and at The University of Texas at Arlington, for their hard work and dedication to this project. I also would like to thank Eryn Armstrong, Research Assistant in my group, for all her help with the data collection. https://lnkd.in/gVvCzXpw #NeuroscienceResearch #CerebralCortexStudy #ChildDevelopment #BrainMapping #CorticalProcessing #meg

Sharing this inspirational discussion of behavioral neuroscience topics with Michael Stanley