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Inspiring Future Young Healthcare Leaders

May 23, 2024 / Education

The third annual Youth Summit at the Big House took place on Saturday, May 18th where students from across southeast Detroit gathered together to learn about healthcare, pathology, and more. 

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Grant funds research into childhood blindness, new partnership in Turkey

November 21, 2023 / Research

A Global REACH seed grant aims to bridge stem cell biology and cutting-edge 3D retinal organoid technology to inform new research of childhood diseases that cause blindness.

Rajesh C. Rao, M.D., Leonard G. Miller Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, and Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Pathology, is a retina surgeon and physician-scientist. He garnered a $10,000 Partnership Development Grant last fall to collaborate with colleagues at the Ege University Faculty of Medicine, in Turkey, where the team was treating a very unique patient.

“This is just one of those needle-in-a-haystack situations. The disease the patient was suffering from, Strømme Syndrome, is so incredibly rare,” Rao said. “I’m really grateful that Global REACH [...]

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Inspiring Young Healthcare Leaders of the Future

May 22, 2023 / Ann Arbor

Michigan Medicine's Youth Summit at the Big House 2023

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Department Set to Participate in Michigan Medicine Youth Summit

May 12, 2022 / Ann Arbor

The Department of Pathology is set to participate in the Michigan Medicine Youth Summit on Saturday, May 21, 2022 at the Big House in Ann Arbor [...]

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Engaging Our Future

November 8, 2019 / Outreach

Department faculty outreach to high school students to educate about careers in medicine and research.

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