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The Huntsman Mental Health Institute at the University of Utah (HMHI), and Huntsman Mental Health Foundation broke ground on the new Utah Mental Health Translational Research Building, east of HMHI in Research Park.

The University of Utah community mourns the loss of John A. Moran — U alum, business leader and philanthropist whose generosity helped establish the Moran Eye Center. “We are very saddened to learn of John Moran’s passing,” said Taylor Randall, president of the University of Utah. “John was a remarkable individual who believed that together we can accomplish the extraordinary, like restoring vision. His commitment to the University of Utah and his legacy through the John A. Moran Center demonstrates a lifelong belief in the power of doing the impossible.” Moran died on Sept. 23, 2023 at the age of…

The University of Utah is teaming with renowned designer Mehrdad Yazdani to imagine a new home for the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine. The result will change the way we see health care throughout Utah and beyond.   As long as Mehrdad Yazdani can remember, he’s had a sketchbook. Even as a child growing up in Iran, he would carry it around and draw the things he loved. In elementary school, it was soccer: sketches of his favorite teams, drawings of a goalie blocking a shot. Later he moved on to his favorite cartoon characters. But by high school…

For advanced cancer surgeon Laura Lambert, hope is the best medicine.

For a minute, the crackling sounded like the Zoom call was crashing. Turns out, it was just a University of Utah physical therapy graduate student’s potato chip bag rustling in a classroom on Utah Tech University’s campus in Southern Utah. The fiber optics for the virtual lectures are that good.

For the tenth year in a row, research funding hit another landmark year, reaching $768 million in fiscal year 2023.

As the practice of medicine evolves, Sara Lamb leads Utah’s effort to reimagine how we train the next generation of health care providers. Sara Lamb wants to see a world where health care is accessible for all. It’s a lofty goal, but she is not alone in aiming to achieve it. Equitable health care requires communities to work together—each individual playing a part for the greater good. For Lamb, that comes in the form of training and educating medical students through cutting-edge programs that prepare physicians of the future to not only provide exceptional care but serve as advocates for…

The expertise of my entire team, combined with the University of Utah hospital’s state-of-the-art resources is the reason I was able to make a full recovery.