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Can a nerve injury trigger ALS?

Can a nerve injury trigger ALS?

A growing collection of anecdotal stories raises the possibility that nerve injury in an arm or a leg can act as a trigger for the development amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS — a progressive neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, named after the famous New York Yankee who died of it in 1941. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago are the first to demonstrate that a peripheral nerve injury can trigger the onset and spread of the disease in an animal model of ALS.
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Report presents economic, environmental strategies for Chicago’s Calumet River area

Report presents economic, environmental strategies for Chicago’s Calumet River area

A new report developed by University of Illinois at Chicago researchers offers strategies to address environmental and economic issues in communities located along the Calumet River on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Produced by the Great Cities Institute at UIC, the report provides a framework for the region to plan and carry out future projects that deal with public health and the environment, social equity, and economic development. Additional features of the report include neighborhood demographic profiles, land use and zoning maps, and housing data.
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Specialized Care for Children’s Statewide Care Coordination Program

University of Illinois at Chicago, Division of Specialized Care for Children’s Statewide Care Coordination Program

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s Division of Specialized Care for Children (DSCC) is a statewide care coordination program that serves Illinois children and youth with special healthcare needs (CYSHCN) and their families. DSCC defines care coordination as a person- and family-centered, strength-based, assessment-driven approach of empowering families to achieve their goals. This process ultimately leads to positive health outcomes, improved quality of life, and overall family satisfaction.
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Sandeep Jain, Associate Professor
2017 Inventor of the Year

Sandeep Jain is amongst the few clinical scientists in the field who have taken their research discovery from laboratory to the clinic and converted them to new therapies.

His research and clinical practice have both focused on very severe cases of dry eye disease caused by autoimmune disorders, in particular by a condition known as ocular graft versus host disease, which is a serious complication that occurs in patients with blood cancers who have undergone stem cell or bone marrow transplants.

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Kimberly Lawless, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Social Sciences

Kimberly Lawless, associate dean for research in the College of Education, believes that science literacy is a tool, and like any tool, be it a hammer, screwdriver or wrench, you need to learn what it is, what it does and when to use it.

“If you go through the world thinking that you only have a hammer, the only thing you can do is hammer,” said Lawless, professor of educational psychology. “But if you go through life with a complement of tools and you are able to fluidly mix and match those tools to the job that’s in front of you, you’re going to better accomplish the job.”

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Dima Mazen Qato, Assistant Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Social Sciences

For more than 10 years, Dima Qato worked as a retail pharmacist and witnessed countless examples of the vital role pharmacies play in the public health system, particularly when it comes to access to and safe use of medications.

However, while many like Qato consider pharmacies to be an essential part of our health care system, the independent and chain retailers are not regulated by or held accountable to any of the groups that provide checks and balances for other essential health services, like care in hospitals and clinics.

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Isabel Cruz, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Natural Sciences and Engineering

Isabel Cruz makes sense of complex data.

“One of the aspects I work on is heterogeneous data — for example, how to make sense of data that is collected with different spatial and temporal granularities,” said Cruz, professor of computer science.

The U.S. Census, for example, collects data every 10 years, but other population data within a city may be taken every month or year.

“So if you want to tell the story of what’s happening in a city, you cannot put apples and oranges together,” she said.

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Richard Novak, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Clinical Sciences

Richard Novak has been working to identify therapies and vaccines for HIV since the 1980s, when the infection first started making the news as it spread among the gay community.

Novak was a young assistant professor of infectious disease at UIC when he pushed for the hospital to open a dedicated HIV clinic because the general infectious disease department wasn’t able to handle the influx of HIV patients. That clinic opened in 1989, and just a few years later, Novak received funding to open UIC’s first dedicated HIV treatment and prevention clinics in the community in 1992.

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Maria Argos, Associate Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Clinical Sciences

What are the health effects of arsenic from drinking water and other sources?

That’s a question that Maria Argos aims to answer in her research studies.

Argos examines the levels of arsenic in drinking water primarily in Bangladesh, and the associated health effects for people who live there.

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Parasani Subbaiah, Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Distinguished - Basic Life Sciences

“I’m a lipid biochemist,” said Papasani Subbaiah, professor of medicine in the department of diabetes/endocrinology and metabolism in the UIC College of Medicine.

Subbaiah’s career has focused on analyzing the role of lipids — the molecules that make up fat in the body — for more than 40 years. His contributions have added to knowledge in several fields including Alzheimer’s disease and other neuroinflammatory diseases, atherosclerosis and metabolism.

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Terry Moore, Assistant Professor
2017 Researcher of the Year, Rising Star - Basic Life Sciences

Terry Moore is a medicinal chemist focused on discovering new drugs to improve the lives of men and women living with chronic health conditions, like cancer and diabetes.

Unlike many drug discovery labs, Moore’s lab investigates the way that proteins interact with one another in diseases.

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