Timothy Sell, PhD, PT, has been awarded $4.5 million from the Department of Defense to better understand and provide recommendations on injury prevention through physical interventions and equipment modifications.
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Joel Stitzel, PhD, and Jillian Urban, PhD, are pioneering research that improves the safety of youth football on and off the field.
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What leads to a successful lab? Collaboration. If you take a look into the Solberg-Woods Lab that is what you will see. Mackenzie Fitzpatrick, a fourth-year Molecular Medicine and Translational Science PhD student, shared that the collaborative environment is part of what initially drew her to […]
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Metin Nafi Gurcan, PhD, leads Wake Forest’s Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, using AI to improve health equity, predict maternal mortality risk, and accelerate cancer care diagnostics.
When Steve Messier started researching how to best treat pain caused by knee osteoarthritis, there was no cure for the debilitating condition.
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More time spent standing or stepping while wearing a weighted vest showed positive changes in bone mineral density, according to a new weight loss study from Wake Forest University.
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Two Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers are among 15 innovation pioneers who will be honored in the 2026 class of National Inventors Hall of Fame ® Inductees
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Graça Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD, professor at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) and Christopher Porada, PhD, professor at WFIRM, lead the Porada Lab. Not only are they working to advance the outcomes of stem cell transplantation and gene therapy in fetal and neonatal patients with genetic disorders; […]
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Wake Forest researcher Jason Fanning explains why framing physical activity as “movement” — not “exercise” — is key to helping older adults build lasting healthy habits and reduce chronic pain.
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For nearly four years, Megan Bennett has served as an assistant professor in Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest. Yet her commitment to public health—and her two decades of research on chronic disease interventions—extends far beyond the classroom. This month, she’s launching her most ambitious […]
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