When Grinnell's ASI Signage wanted to expand its market and start selling its products around the world, the UI's Institute for International Business was ready to help.

Parents and guardians of current or former patients have until March 31 to nominate their child to be a 2016 Kid Captain.

Retrieving healthy veins from legs for use in heart bypass procedures presents risks and complications on top of those related to the heart surgery. What would it take to develop an artificial alternative? That wondering recently led medical entrepreneur Manny Villafaña to researchers at the University of Iowa.

The Iowa Department of Public Health on Feb. 19 announced that an Iowa resident, who recently traveled to countries with ongoing Zika virus transmission, has tested positive for the virus. Iowans traveling to areas where there is ongoing Zika virus transmission should take care to protect themselves from mosquito bites.

The Virtual Soldier Research Program at the University of Iowa has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to create a simulation program to predict and prevent musculoskeletal injuries in U.S. Marines—one of the leading medical problems impeding military readiness.

The policy briefs indicate a large number of Iowa dentists are nearing retirement age, fewer dentists are practicing in rural areas, and the proportion of dentists who work in solo practice is declining.

For more than 35 years, the University of Iowa College of Dentistry's Geriatric Mobile Unit has been providing care where nursing home residents need it: at the facility or, if necessary, even at the bedside.

UI Health Care will change its leadership structure on Feb. 15, 2016. The new leadership structure will combine two existing positions, those of University of Iowa vice president for medical affairs and dean of the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, into a single position.

Dance Marathon 22 culminated with the Big Event Feb. 5–6. It all takes a tremendous amount of planning, preparation, and fundraising—and everyone involved works 365 days “For the Kids,” or FTK. Here’s a look at events, milestones, and interactions that took place throughout this academic year.

The University of Iowa Research Foundation recently finalized a license and sponsored-research agreement with Pfizer Inc. to support the development of potential gene therapies for cystic fibrosis by the laboratories of UI professors John Engelhardt and Ziying Yan.

The State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa has provided information for the state's laboratory personnel regarding diagnostic testing, collection and submission instructions, and lab safety.

A University of Iowa study has answered why mice with cystic fibrosis gene mutations don’t develop the life-threatening lung disease. The researchers also identified a proton pump called ATP12A as a potential target for new CF therapies.