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Surgery News

As reported on the website of the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, the Department of Surgery of the Emory University School of Medicine was ranked #5 in NIH awards for all Departments of Surgery nationwide in 2011, a position the Department has maintained since 2008. FULL STORY»»

An Emory Transplant Center protocol published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition shows that an experimental combination of treatments can convert immune cells that would normally recognize and attack a transplanted organ into cells that control the immune response. FULL STORY»»

Dr. John Puskas mentored a Coulter BME student team as they applied their knowledge of the phases of design research, generation of engineering alternatives, prototyping and testing, and the FDA 510(k) regulatory pathway for medical device clearance to design a prototype of a sternal retractor that he had originated. FULL STORY»»