Request for Project Proposals  Healthcare Analytics Laboratory @ the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Deadline: September 5, 2017   OVERVIEW   The Healthcare Analytics Laboratory at Chicago Booth brings together faculty, advanced graduate students, clinicians, and senior hospital administrators to address the most pressing issues facing healthcare delivery today. Under the guidance of Professor Dan Adelman and doctoral/post-doctoral researchers, students from across campus work in teams on real-world quality improvement projects brought by the leaders of prominent healthcare institutions. (Read more about this initiative here.) Through the analysis of large datasets, project teams develop insights and evidence that impact management, … Read More

It was like seeing your first child being born,” said Michael Bishop, MD. “I was at the bedside, watching those cells go in, several million modified lymphocytes from just this little package. To see them flow in is exciting, even amazing. Then, suddenly, it’s over. My first thought was: Is that it? That’s all it takes, that little amount of cells?” It was Wednesday, May 18, 2016. Bishop, professor of medicine and director of the Hematopoietic Cellular Therapy Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, was carefully observing, along with about a dozen members of his team, the first chimeric … Read More

Using health insurance claims data from more than 480,000 people in nearly 130,000 families, researchers at the University of Chicago have created a new classification of common diseases based on how often they occur among genetically-related individuals. Researchers hope the work, published this week in Nature Genetics, will help physicians make better diagnoses and treat root causes instead of symptoms. Understanding genetic similarities between diseases may mean that drugs that are effective for one disease may be effective for another one,” said Andrey Rzhetsky, PhD, the Edna K. Papazian Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics at UChicago who was the paper’s senior … Read More

Anne Sperling, PhD has been appointed  as Associate Vice Chair for Research for the Department of Medicine effective August 1, 2017. Dr. Sperling, Professor of Medicine (Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care) received her PhD in immunology from Tufts University in 1990.  Following that, she arrived at the University of Chicago for postdoctoral training in immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone. In 1994 she was appointed as a Research Associate in the Ben May Department for Cancer Research, a position she held for two years. In 1996 she joined the faculty in the Section of Pulmonary/Critical Care as an Instructor … Read More