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Meet Maddie Fortman

Maddie Fortman is a second-year student in the University of Iowa Physician Assistant Studies and Services Program. She shares some of the ways she has found support during PA training and how she's learned and grown so far.

Progress report: Stead Family Scholars

The Stead Family Scholars Program aims to advance the development of outstanding early-career faculty of the UI Carver College of Medicine and give a boost to help “risky” projects into the next phase of research. Each investigator receives $125,000 in annual research funding for three years. As we anticipate the announcement of the 2024 cohort, we caught up with the current Stead Family Scholars to see how their research has progressed since they were selected.

Carbon monoxide-infused foam promotes healing in diabetic skin wounds

Drawing on modern culinary techniques, University of Iowa researchers have developed a carbon-monoxide-infused foam that can be applied topically to wounds and improves healing in models of diabetic wounds and pressure ulcers. The results of the study, led by James Byrne, MD, PhD, assistant professor of radiation oncology and biomedical engineering, were published March 12 in Device, a Cell Press journal.