NEWS | Research at LSUHS

Red River Radio - Health Matters explores treatment options and current research for the neurogenerative disorder, Parkinson's Disease, with LSUHS faculty.

LSU Health Shreveport's Office for Research Administration held the 7^th annual Research Celebration event on April 10, 2025, to highlight research accomplishments from the past year and recognize outstanding achievements of LSUHS faculty.

KTAL News - "We’re very excited about what we can do to transform the Sears building into something new for the community, but also retain some of the architectural features,” shares Kevin Flood, CEO of the LSUHS Foundation.

Barksdale Air Force Base - Hannah Cowart, 4th year medical student at LSUHS, shares “I have always had a special place in my heart for the military, so getting to serve them in this way has allowed me to learn a lot about not only medicine, but life as well.”

KSLA 12 -  LSU Health Shreveport partners with Barksdale Air Force Base to improve Aircrew performance when operating B-52's. 

The Shreveport Bossier Advocate - LSU Health Shreveport and Barksdale Air Force Base team up to study the different types of physiological stress that B-52 aircrew experience on long duration deployments. 

Dr. Marie Vazquez Morgan and Dr. Suzanne Tinsley will be acknowledged for their poster titled "Sustainability of a Community Placed Program to Decrease Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the Black Population".

AP News - John A. Vanchiere, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the LSUHS Clinical Trials Office, shares, “We are excited to collaborate with ExThera Medical and use the Seraph 100 to help patients now, with the potential to assist many more in the future.”

LSUHS has named Ashley Krukowski as the Executive Director of Sponsored Programs and Krista Queen as the Executive Director of Regulatory Affairs.

LSU Media Center - The growth reflects increased research activity across the LSU Family - especially on the flagship campus and at LSU Health New Orleans and LSU Health Shreveport.

KTAL6 - As part of the Biostart Program at LSUHS, six students from Southwood’s Biotechnology Magnet Academy have worked alongside a research mentor throughout the semester on a research project.

KTBS 3 - Mall St. Vincent in Shreveport is about to have a new anchor tenant occupying the space vacated by Sears in 2018. Recently, the LSU Health Shreveport Foundation purchased the property for $3.5 million.

The Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) has awarded continuing accreditation to the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center’s Center for Precision Medicine Genomics Laboratory at LSUHS.

318 Forum - In response to continued growth in externally funded research over the last several years, LSUHS announced plans to reimagine the former Sears property at Mall St. Vincent as a state-of-the-art research facility focusing on cancer and cardiovascular research. 

BRAID 2024 brought scientists and students together to highlight the importance of research in the biomedical industry.