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  • Northwestern Nets Presidential Award for Girls’ Science Mentoring

    A Northwestern Medicine program for mentoring urban minority high-school girls for college and careers in science and health was awarded the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

  • New ‘Culprit’ Found in Lou Gehrig’s Disease

    Following a breakthrough that identified a common converging point for all forms of ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease, a new finding further broadens the understanding of why cells in the brain and spinal cord degenerate in the fatal disease.