Bioinformatics Shared Resource 
Our new Bioinformatics Shared Resource provides standardized analyses (DNA-seq, RNA-seq, scRNA-seq, ATAC-seq, ChIP-seq, and spatial transcriptomics) and advanced customized workflows (multi-genomics data integration and public dataset mining). DOM-mentored trainees and faculty without current research funding can request bioinformatics analysis at any stage of the research cycle.

Clinical Trials Framework
We've launched a comprehensive Clinical Trials Framework designed to streamline and enhance our clinical research capabilities. Learn more about the new framework, which aims to reduce administrative burden, accelerate study initiation, and provide investigators with robust support systems and data analytics to enhance trial success rates..

Pilot Award Program in Music and Research
The UR Aging Institute is partnering with the Eastman Performing Arts Medicine Center to offer pilot awards of up to $25,000 to support one-year projects focused on music and aging research. A request for applications will be issued on September 15.

ClinicalTrials.gov Requirement Change
Effective September 25, any projects submitted to NIH funding opportunities with the designation “basic experimental studies with humans” in the title must be registered, once awarded, in ClinicalTrials.gov before research subjects are enrolled. When the study is completed, results must also be reported to ClinicalTrials.gov.  Email researchhelp@urmc.rochester.edu if you need assistance.

In the News: Kirsi Jarvinen-Seppo, MD, PhD, of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, spoke with the Washington Post about why “Allergies Seem Nearly Impossible to Avoid—Unless You’re Amish" (requires subscription).

Publication: NEJM Journal Watch included a summary and comment on a study recently coauthored by Paulina Sudnik, MD, Edward Walsh, MD, Angela Branche, MD, and Ann Falsey, MD, of Infectious Diseases. 

Publication: Brian McGarry, PhD, of Geriatrics/Aging, coauthored “Differences in Skilled Nursing Facilities Admitting Medicare Patients With and Without COVID-19 After Hospitalization” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and “The Patient Driven Payment Model, Skilled Nursing Facility Coding Intensity, and Medicare Expenditures” in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Publication: Ghinwa Dumyati, MD, and Brenda Tesini, MD, of Infectious Diseases, coauthored “Disproportionate Impact of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Among Older Adults in Long-Term Care Settings” and Dumyati coauthored “A Need for a Time-Out: A Consensus Statement From the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association (PALTmed) on the Use of Urine Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for Urinary Tract Infections” in the Journal of American Medical Directors Association.

Publication: Edward Walsh, MD, Michael Peasley, Angela Branche, MD, and Ann Falsey, MD, of Infectious Diseases, coauthored “Respiratory Syncytial Virus Humoral Antibody Responses in Older Adults After Vaccination or Infection” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Publication: Angela Branche, MD, of Infectious Diseases, coauthored the review “Knowledge Gained and Gaps in Understanding in the 25 Years Since Human Metapneumovirus Was First Identified as a Cause of Human Disease” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Publication: Colin Samoriski, MD, Ann Falsey, MD, Angela Branche, MD, Michael Peasley, Edward Walsh, MD, of Infectious Diseases, and Daniel Croft, MD, MPH, of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, coauthored “Clinical Features and Gene Expression Patterns in Adults Hospitalized With Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Human Metapneumovirus Infection” in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Publication: Allison Ramsey, MD, of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, coauthored “Safety and Efficacy of Outpatient Drug Challenges” in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

Publication: Laurence Saubermann, MD, of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, coauthored “Assessment of PredictSURE IBD Assay in a Multinational Cohort of Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease” in the United European Gastroenterology Journal.

Publication: Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE, of Hospital Medicine, authored “Academic Hospitalists' Views on Promotion Through the Lens of Professional Identity” and “Academic Internal Medicine Hospitalist Professional Identity Development” in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Publication: Kah Poh Loh, BMedSci, MBBCh, BAO, MS, of Hematology/Oncology, authored “Community Oncologists' Perspectives on Hospice and Palliative Care for Older Adults with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Qualitative Study” in the Journal of Geriatric Oncology.

Publication: Patricia Rivera, MD, chief of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care, coauthored “Lung Cancers with Cystic Airspaces – an Overview” in Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Publication: Jonathan Friedberg, MD, MMSc, of Hematology/Oncology, coauthored “Ibrutinib added to standard conditioning and as maintenance therapy following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for relapsed or refractory activated-B-cell type Diffuse Large B-cell lymphoma: primary analysis of the US intergroup double-blind randomized phase III study Alliance A051301/BMT-CTN 1201” in Leukemia & Lymphoma.

Publication: Diane Morse, MD, of General Medicine, authored “Community Health Worker Adherence to Self-Determination Theory in the Women’s Initiative Supporting Health Intervention-Based Study” in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.

Publication: Alissa Huston, MD, of Hematology/Oncology, coauthored “Integrative Oncology Fellowship Training in the United States: Uniting Requirements and Core Competencies” in the Journal of Cancer Education.

Publication: Christopher Ritchlin, MD, MPH, of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, authored “Guselkumab Efficacy in Biologic-Naïve Participants with Psoriatic Arthritis and Severe Disease Activity: Post Hoc Analysis of a Phase 3 Study” in Rheumatology and Therapy.