Extracellular histones and vesicles identified as key contributors to COVID-19 thrombosis
When Sanjana Dayal, PhD, and her colleagues met for their weekly “Blood Club” on March 12, 2020, they kickstarted a branch of research that would…
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Beyond the Call of Duty: Recognizing administrative resilience during COVID-19
On the afternoon of Tuesday, February 6, the department’s Staff Engagement Action Committee (SEAC) waited in the Seebohm conference room to welcome more than 30…
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Addressing vaccine hesitancy in theory and in practice
Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine, Aaron Scherer, PhD, is the primary investigator (PI) for a large, cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control…
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Lessons from an ongoing pandemic
The beginning of June represents the home stretch for the academic year. This month will be filled with a number of transitions, most notably our…
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23rd Annual Update in Infectious Diseases, 4/22/2022
Three years have passed since the last in-person version of this Continuing Medical Education conference hosted by the Division of Infectious Diseases. That year, 2019,…
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Dayal, Lentz receive R01 to investigate COVID-19 clotting
Sanjana Dayal, PhD, and Steven Lentz, MD, PhD, received a $3.36M R01 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The grant, titled…
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Kline’s media campaign for vaccinating pregnant women
Many of our faculty and staff in the department and at University of Iowa Health Care have been quick to add another role, public advocate,…
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Timely and tragic case report examines COVID-19 vaccine for the immunocompromised
After SARS-CoV-2 began to rapidly spread across the globe in 2020, there was a rush to develop safe and effective vaccines that could slow the…
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Perepu, Chambers lead trial of proper dosage for COVID-19 thrombosis
Thrombosis is commonly associated with COVID-19; however, the impact of enoxaparin, an anti-clotting drug, on COVID-19 remains uncertain. Usha Perepu, MBBS, MRCP, clinical associate professor…
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Carvour launches health equity projects with P3 funds
Martha Carvour, MD, PhD, has received a three-year, $758K grant from the University of Iowa’s Strategic Initiatives Fund (UISIF) to begin a series of campus-…
