October 25, 2002 Northwestern Launches Gene Banking Project CHICAGO— The Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University has launched a major gene banking project that will use information from the human genome sequence to unravel the genetic cause of many diseases and eventually help scientists develop new tests, determine which patients will respond best to…

October 25, 2002 Smoking May Make Lymphoma More Lethal CHICAGO— A Northwestern University investigator has hypothesized that smoking may play a dual role in the development of a cancer of the lymph glands called follicular lymphoma, first causing it to develop and then transforming it into diffuse large cell lymphoma, an aggressive cancer generally associated…

Medical Students to Present Summer Research Results All members of the Northwestern community are invited to the Feinberg School’s annual Medical Student Research Day on Thursday, October 31. Medical students will present posters from their summer research projects. These hands-on research experiences provide students with a taste of what it would be like to conduct…