
New Painkiller Was Born in Utah
The natural form of Prialt – a new drug for severe pain approved this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration – was discovered at the University of Utah in 1979 by an incoming freshman studying toxins produced by cone snails. Read More
University of Utah researchers have won about $6.7 million in federal grants to develop wireless electrodes that would be implanted to provide blind people with artificial vision and stimulate paralyzed body parts and so disabled people could walk, talk or control a computer with their thoughts. Read More
in five people will be 65 or older by 2030. The University of Utah is gearing up for the inevitable graying of America through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary academic and resource program at its Center on Aging. Read More
A professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law is among the nominees for the 20 top legal thinkers in America. Read More
University of Utah professor of internal medicine Jay A. Jacobson, M.D., received the American Medical Association’s (AMA) highest honor in medical ethics-the Isaac Hayes, MD, and John Bell, MD, Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism. Read More