AMWA, WFO Host Mentoring Tea to Advance Women in Medicine The American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) and Women’s Faculty Organization co-sponsored Feinberg’s most successful mentoring tea event to date. The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine chapters of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) and the Women Faculty Organization (WFO) hosted a mentoring tea to…

Northwestern Joins Michael J. Fox Foundation in $40 Million Five-year Study Northwestern Medicine’s Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center has been selected as one of 18 official study sites for the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), a landmark observational study that aims to identify the biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease. By using a combination of advanced…

Northwestern First Site Open for Spinal Cord Stem Cell Trial Northwestern Medicine is the first site open for enrollment in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for participants with a subacute thoracic spinal cord injury. Following the procedure, participants will receive rehabilitation treatment at The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago…