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We focus on prevention
Catching Cancer Earlier with an At-Home Test
Researchers at CMU are developing ways to catch cancer earlier than ever before by building a screening test that's able to detect cancer from the comfort of a patient’s own home.
Stage 1 Cancers Able to Be Detected
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Innovative Startups That Could Improve Health Care
Meet four CMU-affiliated startups that are translating academic research into tools that could improve health care for millions of Americans—from turning robotics research into data-driven prosthetic care to building living tissue for diabetes treatment.
One Shared Goal
In startups
What if we reimagined stress management?
CMU health psychologist uncovers different stress management strategies.
This research explores how people adapt and thrive under stress, with a focus on the mind-body connection and pathways to resilience.
We power medical breakthroughs
Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain
Across neuroscience, biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, researchers from CMU’s Neuroscience Institute are exploring how pain is measured, understood and treated to support safer, more effective care.
U.S. Adults Living with Chronic Pain
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Personalized Medicine Improves Brain Cancer Surgeries
In a leap for personalized medicine, CMU scientists have discovered a simple and valuable way to improve brain cancer surgeries by investigating tiny variables in patient behavior during brain mapping.
Awake Brain Surgery Innovation
Backed by years of research
What if infections could be treated without antibiotics?
CMU researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in bacteria that could pave the way for an entirely new class of infection treatment.
The discovery doesn’t kill the bacteria — a tactic that often leaves behind resistant survivors — but targets a key mechanism that controls bacterial behavior. Drew Bridges, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Mellon College of Science, said the research could be an important tool in fighting the growing threat of antibiotic resistance.
We save lives
RNA Research Impacts Treatment of Neuromuscular Disorders
CMU researchers have discovered a way to target RNA that could lead to new treatment options for myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common adult-onset form of muscular dystrophy, and other RNA-repeat expansion disorders.
People Affected by DM1
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Tools to Better Understand Life-altering Conditions
To help scientists learn how epilepsy works at multiple levels in the brain, CMU researchers have built a new software package that displays brain activity data for epilepsy in a revolutionary way.
Epilepsy Patients That Can't Be Treated with Medication
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From improving health outcomes and enhancing education, to strengthening national security and advancing trustworthy AI, our work makes life better for people everywhere.