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International Team Including Two Pennington Biomedical Faculty Awarded $25 Million for Cancer Research
Pennington Biomedical Research Center faculty members Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., and Justin C. Brown, Ph.D., are members of a team led by the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Weill Cornell Medicine and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 颅that have secured $25 million to take on the challenge of cachexia, the debilitating wasting condition responsible for up to 30 percent of cancer deaths.
International Team Including Two Pennington Biomedical Faculty Awarded $25 Million for Cancer Research
Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., and Justin C. Brown, Ph.D., of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center are part of a team 颅that secured $25 million to take on cachexia, a debilitating condition responsible for up to 30 percent of cancer deaths.
App Boosts Preschoolers鈥� Motor Skills
Preventing childhood obesity could soon take a major 鈥渉op鈥� forward with an app that teaches kids to do just that, and to skip, run and throw a ball.
海角社区 Shreveport, Health Shreveport Public Health Master's Program Ranked 4th Nationally by Fortune Magazine
海角社区 Shreveport鈥檚 Master of Public Health program, a collaborative effort between 海角社区S and 海角社区 Health Shreveport, has been named the fourth best in the nation in Fortune Magazine's 2022 rankings, which cited the program's high retention rates.
Army Tapped 海角社区 to Understand Deltaic Change, Future-Proof U.S. National Defense
When the U.S. Army needed to understand how climate change will affect the so-called 鈥渃ritical zone鈥濃�攖he thin land surface layer comprised of vegetation, soils, and sediments鈥攖o improve their own planning and secure people, equipment, and infrastructure, they turned to 海角社区.
Pennington, 海角社区 Health New Orleans Part of National Study to Create Personalized-Nutrition Algorithm
Pennington Biomedical, in partnership with 海角社区 Health New Orleans, is taking part in a study using machine learning to predict how an individual responds to a given diet, allowing physicians to offer patients personalized nutrition prescriptions.
Protecting Port Fourchon, Louisiana鈥檚 Energy Industry Hub
海角社区 scientists are learning how to manage sediment to prevent land loss and improve hurricane preparedness in Louisiana's southernmost port, a key place for the U.S. energy industry, but also one of the nation's most vulnerable places.
海角社区 Helps Flood-Prone Tangipahoa Parish Rise to Challenges
In the wake of 2016 floods, which devastated Tangipahoa Parish and 20 other South Louisiana parishes, the 海角社区 Coastal Sustainability Studio and 海角社区 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering began collaborating with local government and communities to set Tangipahoa Parish on a path toward resilience.
Protecting House and Home: Louisiana鈥檚 Number-One Key to Resilience
海角社区 researchers, from coastal scientists and engineers to sociologists and psychologists, are working to protect Louisiana residents and homeowners from the potentially devastating impacts of flooding.
Harnessing a Tweet Storm: Using Fairness-aware Artificial Intelligence and Social Media to Improve Hurricane Resilience, and More
How we can use artificial intelligence for social good? Artificial intelligence, or AI, can help us make decisions, but one of the biggest concerns is the bias problem.