20 March

How Augmented Reality Will Make Surgery Safer

Published 3/20/18 in the Harvard Business Review By Sarah Murthi, MD, Amitabh Varshney MARCH 20, 2018 Some of the biggest medical advances of the last few decades have been in diagnostic imaging—ultrasonogaphy, mammography, computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and so …

15 March

Targeting HIV: Moving closer to a potential cure

Published 3/13/18 on PR Newswire ROCKVILLE, Md., March 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A team of researchers at IBBR, led by Dr. Yuxing Li, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), Rockville, is …

12 March

MPower Day Highlights Impact, Innovation

Posted 3/9/18 on UMB News “In this month alone, about 200 babies will be born in Maryland with opioids in their bodies,” said Asaf Keller, PhD, addressing a crowd of legislators, students, faculty, and staff at the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPoweringthe …

05 March

Esserman: Human Trafficking Touches All Communities

Published 3/2/18 on UMB News A young woman was trafficked into the United States from Mexico, tricked into crossing the border under the cover of night. The lure? The quintessential promise of the American dream — a job, a better …

16 February

Perman Touts UMB’s Statewide Mission

Published 2/14/18 on UMB News Perman Touts UMB’s Statewide Mission February 14, 2018    |   By Alex Likowski University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President Jay A. Perman, MD, thanked legislators in Annapolis for supporting the University’s mission “that takes us into communities across …

14 February

Augmented reality lets doctors peer inside the body like never before

Published on NBC MACH 2/14/18 New devices will end ‘historic disconnect’ in doctors’s treatment of patients. Two-dimensional data displayed on the torso of a medical mannequin.University of Alberta ProjectDR / Augmented reality (AR) technologies that blend computer-generated images and data …