Through DHSA, we are pooling our resources to conduct cutting-edge biomedical research, improve health and health services in Delaware, and educate the next generation of healthcare professionals.
Jefferson opens one of the few dedicated Barrett's Esophagus Treatment Centers in the United States. »
Success story
On May 9, 2012, the First Lady’s Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC) initiative recognized states, communities, early childhood programs, and networks for exceptional work promoting and implementing the goals of LMCC. »
News & Press
A UD professor attended a six-day summit in Salzburg, Austria, designed to improve health care around the world through increased quality improvement.»
Avron Abraham, associate professor in the Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition at the University of Delaware, has received the Outstanding Kinesiology Professional Award from the University of Connecticut. The award was conferred by the Neag School of Education at its annual awards dinner on March 31.
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Two Ph.D. students in nursing science at the University of Delaware have received support for their doctoral work through an institutional grant from the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence. Deborah Friedel and Robbi Alexander have been named Jonas Nurse Leaders Scholars for the 2012-14 academic years. »
Christiana Care is among a select group of hospitals in the U.S. implanting the first FDA-approved heart valve replacement that doesn’t require open heart surgery.
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Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children announces the installation of its EOS ultra-low dose imaging machine. This is the only machine of its kind in the Delaware Valley, and its detector technology, which captures simultaneous front and side spine and limb images of patients in an upright, weight bearing position, garnered a Nobel Prize. »
Led by Jack Gillespie and Shridhar Yarlagadda, CCM recently received a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a rapid prototyping process for the manufacture of advanced passive dynamic ankle-foot orthoses (PD-AFOs) for injured soldiers.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospital's Department of Radiation Oncology has unveiled the region's only image-guided brachytherapy suite, where patients can have radiation imaging, planning and treatment in a single location without being moved. »
A team of research leaders from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont came together recently for the annual North East Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (NECC) meeting. The meeting was held at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) in Newark.»
University of Delaware - Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. DeLeon’s group is interested in sperm membrane proteins and the genes that regulate them. Genetic and molecular biological approaches are being used to study the reproductive hyaluronidases, exemplified by Sperm adhesion molecule 1 (SPAM1) which is a glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked membrane protein with multifunctional roles in mammalian fertilization.