June 9, 2017UIC pharmacoeconomists led by Simon Pickard and Ruixuan Jiang created a cost-analytic model to determine how heroin impacts society using several variables: number of imprisoned heroin users and their crimes; treatment costs of heroin abuse; chronic infectious diseases contracted through heroin abuse (HIV, Hepatitis B and C, and tuberculosis), and cost of their treatments; cost of treating newborns with medical conditions associated with heroin; lost productivity at work; and heroin overdose deaths.

June 6, 2017Ying He, research assistant professor of biopharmaceutical sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received a Pathway to Independence grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to advance her career as a research scientist. Limited to the most promising postdoctoral investigators, the Pathway to Independence grant provides up to five years of support consisting of two phases: the first gives awardees one to two years of mentored assistance, while phase two provides up to three years of independent support contingent on securing an independent academic position.

May 22, 2017Terry Moore, along with his co-Is Luisa DiPietro (Periodontics), Seungpyo Hong (U Wisconsin), and Sekhar Reddy (Pediatrics), received funding from the NIH/NIAMS for his project "Non-covalent Nrf2 Activators for the Treatment of Chromic Wounds". This grant is Dr. Moore's first R01 as an assistant professor her at UIC!