High school students can make a major impact on their schoolmates’ understanding of depression, and their attitudes about seeking help for themselves or others, according to a new study from the U-M Depression Center.

Millions of Americans hear ringing in their ears – a condition called tinnitus – and new research shows an experimental device could help quiet the phantom sounds by targeting unruly nerve activity in the brain.

Two grants totaling $18.3 million from the NIH will allow a School of Dentistry professor to expand research into predicting caries risk in young children and assessing the efficacy of a new treatment.

The HomeLab, housed within the U-M BioSocial Methods Collaborative, looks and feels like a complete apartment. But unlike a home, the lab is outfitted with technology that allows researchers to observe how people live their lives.

“It’s the most talked about pain kids experience, even more so than post-op surgical pain.” Julie Piazza, a certified child life specialist, is referring to needlestick pain from pediatric blood draws. As project manager for patient and family-centered care at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, she has observed anxiety at both ends of the needle.

Researchers at Michigan Medicine have found the livers of patients with a rare disease that affects metabolism have responded positively to leptin therapy.

As part of the recent Association for Clinical and Translation Science (ACTS) Conference in Washington DC, in partnership with the Coalition for Clinical and Translational Science, two representatives from MICHR participated in Capitol Hill Advocacy Day.

Several MICHR faculty and staff members have published three articles about Good Clinical Practice. The articles, which were the result of MICHR’s work on a CTSA-wide initiative on clinical trials training, were published in the January issue of Journal of Clinical and Translational Science.

Neurable, a start-up company that grew out of a project funded by MICHR’s Pilot Grant Program, has developed a cap that can help people move things with their minds.

Kathleen A. Stringer, PharmD, Professor of Clinical and Translational Pharmacy, has been awarded two federal grants totaling nearly $3.3 million to carry out two important studies.

Researchers have concluded that critical illness involving the lungs has more to do with disruptions to the body’s natural population of microbes, or microbiome, than previously thought.

A team of experts has developed the first comprehensive guide to using intravenous, or vascular access, devices of all kinds.

Helping kidney dialysis patients have healthier treatment sessions and longer lives is the goal of a new $6.7 million project at the University of Michigan.

With every breath you take, microbes have a chance of making it into your lungs. But what happens when they get there? And why do dangerous lung infections like pneumonia happen in some people, but not others?

MICHR-supported research studied, for the first time in the United States, the result of following a carefully controlled diet to improve the symptoms and quality of life for those with IBS.

A tiny device that can test extremely small blood samples was used to help save the life of a young girl just before Christmas. Although the device is still in the research phase, its use was allowed under the FDA’s “Expanded Access” program to help treat a young cancer patient whose organs were shutting down.

MCRU collaborated with FFMI and Nuclear Medicine to design a prototype urine pump for neuroblastoma patients.  The pump has been successfully used on four children that have undergone radioactive therapy.

U-M's Glenn Green, MD, and his colleague, Scott Hollister, PhD have received national attention for saving the life of a second child using a groundbreaking 3D printed device. 

As part of its vision to fund great science and connect great researchers, MICHR is supporting a study helping Detroit-area children who are in need of mental health services as a result of trauma and grief. 

A past student of MICHR's K Writing workshop recently published a study that characterizes how use of advanced imaging technology and endoscopy for chronic rhinosinusitis varies by physician specialty.