Le Bonheur and University of Tennessee Health Science Center physicians Jonathan D. Finder, MD, and Terri Finkel, MD, PhD, were recently named co-principal investigators of a five-year, $3 million National Institutes of Health research project (R01) grant, “Integrative Genomics of Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease.”

Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural membranes necessary for cells to thrive and assemble into complex organisms? New research from UC San Diego has uncovered a plausible explanation involving the reaction between two simple molecules.

Addition of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab to standard of care for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma of the limb significantly improved disease-free survival, according to the results of the SU2C-SARC032 clinical trial that published today in The Lancet.

Medical University of South Carolina researchers have secured up to $5 million in funding expected over six years from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to address the complex links between opioid use disorder (OUD), intimate partner violence and post-traumatic stress disorder. They are developing a digital toolkit to identify these intertwined risk factors early with the goal of improving OUD treatment outcomes.