Early-Career Investigator

The social determinants of health — the conditions in which a person lives, learns, works, and plays — account for 80 percent of health outcomes, but they’re almost never used in medical care. “So much affects health outcomes beyond what happens at a medical facility, such as education, access to transportation, financial stability, and more,” says David Haynes, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the

CTSI KL2 scholar Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH, led the nation’s first study on whether metformin, fluvoxamine, and ivermectin, or their combinations could serve as possible treatments to prevent ER visits or hospitalization, as well as Long-COVID. Yesterday, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the clinical trial. “Our trial suggests that metformin may reduce the likelihood of

The latest poster session at the University of Minnesota CTSA had a twist. Called the Un-Poster Session, it allowed researchers’ family and friends to get in on the event by taking over the presentation. Unlike traditional poster sessions, children or partners of current and former scholars in the UMN Clinical and Translational Science Institute's professional development programs got to present

Coaching is a powerful force for catalyzing the success of early-career researchers at the University of Minnesota. UMN CTSA scholars who’ve received coaching are advancing their careers in ways that align with their values, separate from external pressures. For example, it gave former KL2 scholar Kate Diaz Vickery, MD, MSc, the confidence and encouragement to lean into the community engagement

Frailty, which is characterized by weakness, fatigue and weight loss, is a common occurrence among patients with cancer and can impact their quality of life and survival. A recent study led by a KL2 Career Development scholar, funded by the University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Science Institute, links frailty to inflammation levels in the blood of women with breast cancer. Women with

To say that early-career investigator Jesse Wilson, PhD, has recently found success is an understatement. Simply put, he is rocking it. In 2018, the biomedical optics engineer and assistant professor at Colorado State University won a Boettcher Foundation Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Award, and was named the Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, & Schreck-MRA Young Investigator by the Melanoma Research