Small Animal MRI Scanner Will Enhance Research Efforts Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine will have enhanced imaging capabilities thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health High End Instrumentation (HEI) grant program. The funding will be used to purchase a 7T Bruker ClinScan MRI scanner, which provides high-resolution in…

Student Visionaries Create Nonprofit Organization Several globally minded medical students believe that one good model of care deserves another one just like it, especially when it comes to curing blindness in developing countries. Forming the nonprofit organization CatarACT, these students from Northwestern intend to combat the vision-robbing ravages of untreated cataracts by borrowing a solution…

New Chief of Surgical Oncology Announced David M. Mahvi, MD, has joined Northwestern as chief of surgical oncology and professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as a member of the Robert H. Lure Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. Dr. Mahvi is on the medical staff of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.…