Last month, MCIRCC hosted the Massey Regional TBI Conference to explore the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of traumatic brain injury. Through lectures, a poster session, and scientific presentations from funded Massey TBI Grand Challenge teams, the conference was able to generate powerful dialogue about the most complex disease in the most complex organ.
Read MoreANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan was recently awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health to establish an institutional career development program for advanced training in emergency critical care research...
Read MoreSeveral MCIRCC members have been invited to present at the Defense Department’s premier scientific meeting, the Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS), this week in Florida. The joint symposium provides a collaborative environment for military medical care providers with deployment experience, military scientists, academia, and industry to exchange information on research and health care advancements...
Read MoreANN ARBOR, Mich. — No one knows for sure how they got there. But the discovery that bacteria that normally live in the gut can be detected in the lungs of critically ill people and animals could mean a lot for intensive care patients...
Read MoreMCIRCC has partnered with the Center for Systems Biology (CSB) and the Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) to host a one-day symposium on September 14. The symposium “Advancing Precision Medicine through Complex Systems Biology” will discuss precision medicine applications for complex biological systems using computational approaches...
Read MoreNow that the chaos and excitement of Pitch Day is in the rear view mirror, we’d like to take some time to recognize and highlight the five proposals that won funding as a result of successful pitches to The Massey Foundation TBI Grand Challenge panel. Among our funded proposals were innovative pharmaceutical, device and technology solutions to the challenges posed by severe TBI...
Read MoreTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is considered to be one of the most complex diseases in the most complex organ in the body. TBI patients require continuous monitoring and constant care in order to have a chance at survival with an outcome similar to their preinjury state. Innovation in severe TBI care is badly needed in order to improve patient outcome and ease the incredible burden placed on caregivers, and allow them to provide the personalized care required by the complexity of Traumatic Brain Injuries...
Read MoreOn March 31, researchers, professors and clinicians from the University of Michigan welcomed colleagues from the University of Oslo to discuss ongoing research in resuscitation, cardiovascular emergencies and critical care...
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