Working with University of Texas biologists, UI physiologists investigate how the South American ghost knifefish generates high frequency electrical charges. Their study findings may lead to better understanding how genetic mutations can lead to epilepsy and cardiac arrhythmia.

Mohammed Milhem, MBBS, will receive this year’s coveted Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award given by the international Arnold P. Gold Foundation to one faculty member and student at the nation’s select medical schools. This year’s student award winner for the UI Carver College of Medicine is senior Aaron Lacy.

Meet David Kaczka, MD, PhD, Associate Professor

Meet Nicholas Butler, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor

Meet Paloma Giangrande, PhD, Associate Professor

Meet Sarah Haskell, DO, Program Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship

A research team led by Aliasger K. Salem and Kareem Ebeid at the University of Iowa has developed a method for targeting malignant tumors using nanoparticles that carry a combination of chemotherapeutic drugs directly to the tumors without affecting healthy tissue.

In a new study, University of Iowa researchers studied how people stopped an action. The researchers found that when participants heard an unexpected sound, they stopped an action more often than when they heard no sound at all.

A new approach tested by researchers at the University of Iowa shows that de-identified data from a “smart thermometer” connected to a mobile phone app can track flu activity in real time at both population and individual levels and the data can be used to significantly improve flu forecasting.