New research from the University of Iowa and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center demonstrates that offspring can be protected from the effects of prenatal stress by administering a neuroprotective compound during pregnancy.

Research on faulty genetic material by University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine professor Christopher Ahern recently was licensed by Tevard Biosciences, a company that is seeking to treat certain forms of epilepsy.

Rainbo Hultman, PhD, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics and a member of the Iowa Neuroscience Institute, is one of three winners of the 2021 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards from the McKnight Endowment Fund.

In a collaboration with colleagues in the UI Carver College of Medicine and College of Engineering, Enrique Leira, MD, MS discovered that low-frequency vibrations, such as those associated with helicopter transport, may be beneficial for stroke patients treated with these clot-busting agents. The findings were published in the journal Stroke.