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Academic Health Center Discoveries and Developments
Updated: 01/01/08:
The University of Cincinnati is an institution with a rich history in discovery and innovation. Credited with many firsts, from the oral, live-virus polio vaccine and the first antihistamine, to the first safe, anti-knock gasoline, UC researchers are literally transforming the way we live and work. |
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Academic Health Center Leadership
Updated: 03/15/08:
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Academic Health Center Overview
Updated: 01/02/08:
The University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center includes the colleges of medicine, nursing, pharmacy and allied health sciences, Hoxworth Blood Center, UC’s Genome Research Institute and the Academic Information Technology & Libraries. Major affiliates include the University Hospital; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Shriner’s Hospitals for Children, Cincinnati; and UC Physicians. |
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Academic Health Center Research
Updated: 11/27/07:
UC Academic Health Center and its affiliates brought in $270.2 million (81 percent) of the university's 2007 research dollar total. |
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MSB-CARE/Crawley Project
Updated: 10/08/07:
On completion, the MSB-CARE/Crawley Building will be one of the largest health-science research complexes in the country, a highly visible gateway inviting visitors into the university's scientific corridor. |
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Daniel Drake Medal
Updated: 05/21/07:
In 1985, the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of its founder, pioneering physician Daniel Drake. As part of that celebration, the college created a new award—the Daniel Drake Medal—to honor its distinguished living faculty and alumni. |
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Advanced Center for Telemedicine and Surgical Innovation
Updated: 07/19/07:
The Advanced Center for Telemedicine and Surgical Innovation is a research collaboration between the University of Cincinnati’s surgery department, the U.S. Army and other federal agencies aimed at developing and testing robotic surgery and telemedicine procedures to improve care for injured soldiers—and someday, civilians. |
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Center for Surgical Innovation
Updated: 10/17/07:
A collaboration of the surgery and biomedical engineering departments, the Center for Surgical Innovation and its team of multidisciplinary experts in surgery, telemedicine and information technology are developing and disseminating technologies that make a tangible difference in surgical and medical care across the world as we move into an age of bio-intelligence. |
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Computational Medicine Center
Updated: 04/11/06:
The Computational Medicine Center is a bustling and cutting-edge center of predictive medicine and disease management. |
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Genome Research Institute
Updated: 10/08/07:
The Genome Research Institute, founded in 2001 with a gift of land and facilities from Aventis Pharmaceuticals and funded by the Ohio Third Frontier Project, is home to internationally recruited scientists researching the genetic basis of some of the world’s most serious and prevalent diseases, including obesity, heart disease and cancer. |
