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Dr. Mladen Vidovich was awarded the Chancellor's Translational Research Initiative Award! Eleven projects with high commercialization potential were selected for 2022 CTRI Awards. UIC Innovation awarded $275,000 to help UIC researchers prove the viability of their ideas and advance their projects towards commercialization through the Chancellor's Translational Research Initiative (CTRI). This year's CTRI award recipients [...]

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Left to Right: Asrar Malik and Jalees Rehman In a new paper, researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago report that a drug approved for treating patients with autoimmune disease helped to prevent lung damage and death in mice infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19 in humans. The results of their [...]

Congratulations to Drs. Joan Briller and George Kondos who were listed in the Chicago Mag as top heart docs in cardiovascular disease. https://bit.ly/3AKVdJh

Dawood Darbar (Photo: Jenny Fontaine) A new mutation found in a gene associated with an increased risk of atrial fibrillation poses a significantly increased risk for heart failure in Black people. The discovery, made by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, could change current guidelines that recommend against genetic testing in people [...]

Dr. George Kondos, vice head for the Department of Medicine, has used a simulator known as Harvey to educate medical students on how to give a cardiology exam. Since COVID-19 made classes go online he has been using it remotely to teach more than 300 students. Over the last 30 years, Dr. George [...]

The CardioNerds Cardiology Case Reports series shines light on the hidden curriculum of medical storytelling. CardioNerds (Amit Goyal & Karan Desai) join University of Illinois at Chicago cardiology fellows (Brody Slostad, Kavin Arasar, and Mary Rodriguez-Ziccardi) for a cup of tea from atop Hancock Tower! They discuss an illuminating case of altered mental status & electrical instability due to digitalis [...]