OneMUSC Innovation Story Archive

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Research Scientist

Called to Government

Research stand-out will have her pick of government research scientist career paths.

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Award

Clinical Excellence

MUSC bariatric and robotic surgeon honored with the ASMBS Foundation 2023 Clinical Excellence Award.

Vascular surgeon Dr. Jean Marie Ruddy (front) and bioengineer Dr. Ying Mei (back) are collaborating on potentially heart-saving science.

Research Breakthrough

Collaborating for the Heart

South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research (SCTR) pilot funding allows bioengineer and vascular surgeon to test potentially heart-saving science.

A man in a blue uniform dribbles a soccer ball on a field

Pool to Pitch

Fresh Perspective to Rehab

Athlete turned doctor serves as a physician for the U.S. Men’s Cerebral Palsy National soccer team.

Centrosome Clustering

Cancer Cell Research Progress

A research team finds a protein that can help kill cancer cells.

Man with white hair and a beard sits outside wearing a blue open collared shirt.

Autism Study

New Biomedical Center

NIH grants award to support study of autism, other neurodevelopmental differences.

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MUSC Innovator Award

Emotional Intelligence Boxes

MUSC Office of Innovation recognizes College of Nursing’s Joy Lauerer and Amy Williams as recipients of I am an MUSC Innovator Award.

Dr. Arman Kilic gestures while wearing a white lab coat and a surgical mask.

Surgical Innovation

Schiller Surgical Innovation Center embraces AI to enhance decision-making and improve outcomes.

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Clinical Trial Enrollments

Raising Awareness

MUSC team finds a novel approach to reach more patients with clinical trials.

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MRI Access

MRI Access Expands

How remote scanning assistance is bringing health care to rural areas of South Carolina.

Coping Tool

Calm Boxes

Calm boxes containing multisensory toys developed to help homeless children manage stress, emotions.

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Rise In Cervical Cancer

Cancer Increase

After being on the decline, researchers identify a significant recent rise in cervical cancer rates.

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Cancer in the Crosshairs

Prospects in Research

MUSC Hollings researcher targets aggressive breast cancer with new drug candidates.

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PTSD Relief

Night and Day Difference

A new technology-based treatment helped this veteran's struggles with PTSD.

In back: Leslie Lenert MD, MS, Director, Biomedical Informatics CenterFront Left to right: -Elizabeth Szwast-Lindsey Jennings, MD, MPHEmergency Room Medicine-Jihad Obeid MDEndowed Chair for Biomedical Informatics Associated with Clinical Effectiveness & Patient Safety

Combatting the Crisis

No Time to Waste

The Opioid Overdose Network moves quickly and leverages tools to address public health emergency.

Binder saying clinical trials along with stethoscope, vials and pills.

Clinical Trial Metrics

Clinical Trial Management

Integrated tool will improve clinical trial enrollment and cost effectiveness tracking

Dr. Rami Zebian holds a smart device while a woman next to him uses a Butterfly ultrasound device on a man's bare back.

A Leap Forward

Leap Forward

MUSC begins widespread use of pocket-size, whole body ultrasound system

An older man and woman lean into each other affectionately in a garden

Like Science Fiction

'Like Science Fiction'

Patient compares CAR-T-cell therapy for cancer to science fiction becoming reality

Alexander Alekseyenko, Ph.D., left, and Marvella Ford, Ph.D., right

Data Dive

New joint program uses big data to identify and address health inequities

Dr. Katz stands in a room, wearing a VR headset and a pair of scrubs. His hands are out in front of him like he's conducting an orchestra

Surgery of the Future

AR Surgery

Assisted reality could revolutionize surgery in the near-future

Partial Team for portable MRI-equipped ambulance Blue Sky Award winning project

Care in Motion

Setting Care in Motion

Ambulances add cutting-edge scanners with goal of improving stroke patient care

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Day at the Farm

Program supports new mothers, babies in partnership with local farm

Seated L to R: Tammy Loucks, MPH, DrPH, Gretchen Seif, DPT, and Standing L to R: Joe Blumer, Ph.D., Aalap Shah, M.D., FACEP, Christine Andresen. Not pictured: Jennifer Wisniewski, PharmD, Fabio Rizzante, D.D.S., MSc, Ph.D., and Dawn Terzulli, DNP

Celebrating ideas in education

Education Innovation Advocates

Inaugural Education Innovation Advocates named

Funding for MUSC projects

Innovation Week Recap

Over $500,000 was awarded during Innovation Week

Mononuclear phagocytes in Alzheimer's disease. Licensed from Wikimedia Commons.

New Alzheimer’s target

New Alzheimer's Target

Researchers investigate leaky blood vessels’ relationship to Alzheimer’s.

MUSC Physical Therapist Nathan Harris watches Vanessa Fry’s form during a physical therapy training session.

Overcoming injuries

Return to Play

New MUSC program helps athletes return to sports.

Bhisham Chera, M.D., stands in front of a radiation machine.

New Treatments

Hollings doctor tests less toxic, more effective treatment.

Promising Cancer Research

Promising Research

Study sheds light on better ways to prevent and treat colorectal cancer.

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Violence Prevention

$1 million grant awarded for community violence prevention program.

MRI showing the dorsal flow of the brain’s waste clearance system (shown in green).

Seeing the Brain's Drains

Technique pioneered at MUSC provides new look at brain vessels.

Interactions between Kupffer (red), stellate (green) and endothelial (blue) cells in the liver. Image by Johnny Bonnardel. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Infection risk identified

Increased Infection Risk

Researchers find new cause behind cirrhosis infections

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Vaccine effectiveness

Vaccine Effectiveness

MUSC contributes to study about COVID vaccines keeping teens out of the ICU

New sickle cell center

Sickle Cell Center

Rena N. Grant Sickle Cell Center honors inspiring woman as it tackles ambitious goals

Dr. Tanya Saraiya (left) and Dr. Sudie Back (right). Photograph by Sarah Pack.

Virtually guided PTSD therapy

Virtually Guided PTSD Therapy

Therapists “accompany” PTSD patients virtually and improve outcomes in real-time.

Medical students Anna Beth Eitel and Cora Bisbee talk with Thomas Ricks, M.D.

Street Medicine

Medical students and residents work with group that helps homeless get health care.

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MRI on the go

MRI On the Go

Is it possible to perform an MRI en route to the hospital and effect treatment time?

Dr. Marvella Ford and Melanie Slan stand outside

HPV Vaccinations

VAX Van

Hollings rolled out a new mini-mobile health van to make it easier for parents to get their children HPV vaccinated.

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AI in Healthcare

Clemson-MUSC AI Hub

A new partnership between Clemson and MUSC has its sights set on using artificial intelligence to improve health care.

COVID-19 Treatments

COVID Treatments

New treatments for COVID-19 may be on the way. Here’s how they work, plus the step an MUSC scientist encourages everyone to take

Innovator Awards

June 2021 Innovators

MUSC Shark Tank participants are celebrated.

Dr. Elizabeth Mack with a pediatric patient

New Pediatric Therapy

MISC Therapy

Pediatricians at MUSC Children’s Health contribute to nationwide study that finds effective treatment for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.