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Care Translating scientific insight into quality
care
Delivering high-quality patient care is a hallmark of
the School of Medicine. The skill of the faculty and medical students
with whom patients interact is reflected in the local, national and international
reputation of our clinical programs. These include the Stanford-affiliated
teaching hospitals and the clinics operated by our faculty. Our clinical
resources are vital to our ongoing efforts to transform laboratory discoveries
into innovative therapies that improve health.
Translational Medicine: Improving patient care through research discovery
Seung Kim and Jeremy Heit have pinpointed a protein that appears to play a central role in insulin production.
Scientists' discovery opens the door to developing new therapies for diabetes.
Discovery may lead to new class of diabetes drugs
Scientists have known for a while that inhibiting the protein calcineuron boosts the risk for diabetes, but they didn’t know why. Seung Kim’s latest paper in Nature solves that riddle and opens the door to developing new therapies for the disease. More
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Gleevec may be effective therapy for rheumatoid arthritis
The potent cancer drug Gleevec, used to combat leukemia and some gastrointestinal cancers, may be useful in treating rheumatoid arthritis, according to Bill Robinson and other researchers at the School of Medicine. More