The Clinical Athlete Framework applies performance science principles to the physical and cognitive demands of clinical practice, helping future nurses develop the strength, endurance and resilience needed to succeed in one of healthcare’s most demanding professions.

Seven years ago, Johns Hopkins researchers and their collaborators announced they had found the X cell, a novel immune cell that plays a key role in the development of Type 1 diabetes. Today the team is taking its research further, leveraging years of federally supported discovery to explore how the X cell can be turned into an immune therapy that might one day reverse the progression of Type 1 diabetes shortly after diagnosis. Their latest findings, published by the Journal of Immunology in April, show that an antibody developed based on the X cell was able to target and eliminate immune cells involved in the autoimmune response. The work, while still in preclinical models, represents longstanding research partially supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Two UCLA Health doctors are accompanying the 2026 USA Basketball Women’s National Team at the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup that began Sept. 4 in Berlin.