Cellular therapy for lymphoma

An oncology breakthrough at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is a type of cell therapy called chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy (CAR-T), a new type of immunotherapy born out of years of cellular therapy research. 

April 18, 2018

This is the state of stress in 2018

Researchers at Wayne State University have found that a mother’s stress levels directly impact the brain development of babies in-utero — specifically that her stress can change the neural connectivity of her unborn baby’s brain. 

April 16, 2018

Saving kids' lives through translational research

As a pediatric heart specialist, Dr. Steven Lipshultz has taken pride in the work he's done to help kids in metro Detroit. 

April 16, 2018

Mariah Carey says she has bipolar disorder; a psychiatrist explains what that is

As an assistant professor of psychiatry, I see her courage as an opportunity to explain bipolar disorder, a mood disorder that includes episodes of elevated mood, as well as episodes of depression.

April 13, 2018

Vision restored: The latest technologies to improve sight

Cell implants, gene therapy, even optogenetics are making headway in clinical trials to treat various forms of blindness.  

April 10, 2018

Baby steps to better births

"Health systems, the university, the city – everybody's very dedicated to this problem," says Dr. Sonia Hassan, Make Your Date's director and an associate dean for maternal, perinatal and child health at the Wayne State University School of Medicine. "They've become very galvanized over the past couple of years, and so it's an environment that's been … very supportive."

April 5, 2018

Barth syndrome treatment

The Barth Syndrome Foundation recently announced awardees from its 2017 grant cycle. Miriam Greenberg, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University and a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, received a one-year, $50,000 grant.

March 28, 2018

New standard for post-surgery chemotherapy

"What gratifies me about this work is its impact on patients," said Anthony Shields, MD, PhD, a SWOG investigator and associate center director of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and a professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine. 

March 28, 2018

Fetal brain scans

Newly-developed scanning techniques allowed a team at Wayne State University to examine neural activity of 47 fetuses between 30 and 37 weeks gestation.

March 26, 2018

Social media is ruining your attention span

NBC's Jacob Soboroff discusses screen addiction with Dr. David Rosenberg, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Wayne State University.

March 22, 2018

Health Care Heroes

Jeffrey Taub, M.D., oncology research category winner, drew inspiration from his own childhood bout with cancer when he decided to become a pediatric oncologist. 

March 18, 2018

Flu season

Dr. Patty Brown is a professor of internal medicine at Wayne State’s School of Medicine. She tells WDET’s Laura Weber-Davis she is cautiously optimistic the worse of this particularly dangerous strain of the flu could be behind us, now that the weather is beginning to warm up and people are spending less time cooped up in offices and close quarters. 

March 6, 2018

Mental illness and gun laws

When can a person be potentially dangerous to others? Not all mental illness may be a risk of harm to others. In the majority of cases when a patient is involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric inpatient unit, it is not because the person is a risk to others. Rather, it is more often the case that the person is at risk of harming himself, as in the case of a depressed, suicidal patient.

February 26, 2018

1 in 5 college students have anxiety or depression. Here’s why

February 9, 2018

“You can’t see it,” but what if you could? The game-changing effect of seeing mental illness

Dr. David Rosenberg, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Wayne State University, talks about developing technology in brain imaging that can help doctors and patients objectively recognize and identify mental illness.

January 9, 2018

Why psychiatrists should not be involved in presidential politics

The media, politicians, celebrities, athletes and other groups have questioned the fitness and mental health of the president, but one group has largely refrained: mental health professionals.

December 3, 2017

$10M gift helps Wayne State students become doctors

Mort Harris is one of Wayne State’s top five donors who has made a $17.5 million cumulative contribution to the university for its fitness center, social work and literacy programs. 

November 30, 2017

The science of fright: Why we love to be scared

Whether we love or hate to experience fear, it’s hard to deny that we certainly revere it – devoting an entire holiday to the celebration of fear..All fun aside, abnormal levels of fear and anxiety can lead to significant distress and dysfunction and limit a person’s ability for success and joy of life. Nearly one in four people experiences a form of anxiety disorder during their lives, and nearly 8 percent experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

October 26, 2017

Wayne State receives $2 million NIH grant for new study on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders

The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Wayne State University $2,063,188 for a new study that will analyze longitudinal data spanning 20 years collected from five U.S. cohorts, including 480 African-American mothers and children in the Detroit Longitudinal Cohort Study, to take a closer look at the key developmental outcomes and prenatal alcohol exposure levels that characterize FASD.

October 5, 2017

New methods make genetic testing simpler and faster

September is Tay-Sachs Awareness Month, highlighting a genetic disorder much more prevalent in the Jewish community than in the population at large. Concern about Tay-Sachs led to interest in screening for Jewish genetic diseases in the 1970s. Since then, the incidence of Tay-Sachs disease, which is invariably fatal, has fallen by more than 90 percent because of genetic screening. Jerry Feldman, M.D., a professor at Wayne State University School of Medicine and director of its Clinical Genetic Services, says the number of identified disorders more common in the Ashkenazi Jewish community has grown to more than 80, but he notes that beyond that, different labs may test for additional mutations that are found in many ethnic groups. 

September 27, 2017