New Hope for HIV Vaccine Gates Foundation grant supports scientist’s quest to develop new vaccine concept The road to finding a vaccine for HIV has been long and frustrating — marked by false starts and grave disappointments. Several vaccine candidates have been tested, including two that made it to Phase III clinical trials, but, in…

Founders’ Day Celebrates Opening of 2011-12 Academic Year, Welcomes ‘Doctors of Tomorrow’ The 2011 Founders’ Day Convocation on August 26 kicked off Feinberg’s 153rd academic year and officially welcomed the Class of 2015. After a week of introductions and team-building activities, the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine 2011 Founders’ Day Convocation on August 26…

Major ALS Breakthrough The underlying disease process of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease), a fatal neurodegenerative disease that paralyzes its victims, has long eluded scientists and prevented development of effective therapies. Scientists weren’t even sure all its forms actually converged into a common disease process. But a new Northwestern Medicine study for…