Tulane University School of Medicine

Tulane University receives $12.5 million for military veteran care

July 7, 2020 sarah JonasAnnouncement

Tulane University, nationally renowned for the care it provides to retired professional athletes through partnerships with the NFL Player Care Foundation and The Trust (Powered by the NFLPA), has received a $12.5 million gift from The Avalon Fund for the creation of the Tulane University Center for Brain Health. The center will specialize in the treatment of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in U.S. military veterans, beginning in the fall of 2020.

Tulane University awarded $10.3 million to test therapeutics, vaccines for novel coronavirus

April 6, 2020 sarah JonasAnnouncement

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Tulane National Primate Research Center a contract of up to $10.3 million to evaluate vaccines and treatments to combat coronavirus disease 2019.

Tulane expert available to talk about the exposure, negative effects of vaping

September 25, 2019 sarah JonasExpert Pitch

Vaping has become America’s latest epidemic, and the number of vaping-related illnesses continues to increase daily. As of Sept. 24, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control estimated 530 confirmed cases of serious lung illnesses due to the effects of vaping.…

Tulane University student spends summer conducting brain tumor research in Switzerland

September 18, 2019 sarah JonasFeature

Tulane University senior James Rogers has been charting a course in the name of research since he arrived on campus in the fall of 2016. Rogers’ journey has led him from New Orleans to Bethesda, Md., across the Atlantic to Scotland and, most recently, Switzerland, where he spent the summer as a visiting research scholar in the Brain Tumor Center at the University Hospital Zürich (USZ).