Category: Campus News
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Bass Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his foundational work in expanding the field of circadian mechanisms in metabolic health and disease.
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Goyal Named Mallinckrodt Foundation Grant Fellow
Yogesh Goyal, PhD, assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has been named a 2025-2028 Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant Fellow, which recognizes early-stage biomedical investigators engaged in basic and translational research that has the potential to make fundamental advances in biomedical science.
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Smith Honored with NIH New Innovator Award
Richard Smith, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and of Pediatrics, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, which supports early-career investigators conducting high-risk and innovative research in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences.
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Influential Biochemist Svetlana Mojsov Named Winner of 2026 Kimberly Prize
Distinguished biochemist Svetlana Mojsov, PhD, the Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Associate Professor at the Rockefeller University, New York, has been named the winner of the annual $250,000 Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
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QSI RENU Team Receives MTEC Grant to Develop Regenerative System for Wound Healing
A research team at the Querrey Simpson Institute for Regenerative Engineering has received a four-year, $4.7 million grant to develop a system to simultaneously accelerate wound healing, lower infection risk, and provide continuous in-wound monitoring.
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Nation’s First MIRAVA Polyscope Comes to Center for Advanced Microscopy
Feinberg investigators now have access to one of the most advanced super-resolution imaging systems in the world, thanks to the installation of the MIRAVA Polyscope at the Center for Advanced Microscopy.
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Krainc Presented with 2025 Tripartite Prize
Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, chair of the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology and Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor, has been named the winner of the 2025 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
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Rogers Wins Royal Society’s Bakerian Medal
John A. Rogers, PhD, has won the Royal Society’s Bakerian Medal and Lecture, one of the Premier Awards given by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.
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Les Turner ALS Foundation to Make $500,000 Gift to Northwestern Research
The Les Turner ALS Foundation has announced that it will make a $500,000 gift to support ALS research at Feinberg; the historic gift will support researchers in pursuit of a cure for the disease during a federal funding freeze on Northwestern research.
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Feinberg Expands Prosthetics & Orthotics Education with Research Track Master’s Program
Northwestern has expanded the prosthetics and orthotics program with a Master of Prosthetics and Orthotics Research (MPO-R) degree, which offers the combination of rigorous clinical training with advanced research education.
