Students Receive Research Funding to Advance Careers as Physician-Scientists Two Feinberg School medical students have received funding for one year of full-time biomedical research from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to support their early careers as physician-scientists. Second-year student Carson Lam and third-year student Sarina Pasricha will each receive a $27,000 stipend, a $5,500[…]

Teen Philanthropist Supports Research to Help Others Until recently, Noah Perkins had never heard of Dr. Jack Kessler. Nor was he familiar with Dr. Kessler’s pioneering work with stem cells or spinal cord injuries. That changed when he saw Terra Incognita, a documentary film that features Dr. Kessler and his daughter, Allison, as part of[…]

$6.5 Million NIH Grant Funds New Approach to Infertility Research What causes a woman’s eggs to deteriorate in quality with age, and can that be reversed? How does the ovary choose an egg—out of a stash of roughly one million—to release for ovulation? And can the ovary be influenced to pick a “good” quality egg[…]