Medical Students Named Research Scholars Two students at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have been selected for the 2003–04 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Scholars Research Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Third-year student Maulik D. Majmudar of Germantown, Maryland, and second-year student Sima P. Patel of Diamond Bar,[…]

April 18, 2003 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Nanotechnology May Help Overcome Current Limitations of Gene Therapy CHICAGO— Scientists from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Argonne National Laboratory have created a hybrid “nanodevice” composed of a “scaffolding” of titanium oxide nanocrystals attached with snippets of DNA that may[…]

Public Invited to Free Lecture on Genetic Testing As part of its ongoing effort in public education, the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Genetic Medicine is holding a free lecture for the public, “Genetic Testing and Common Disease.” Learn how genetic testing will be applied to common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s[…]