Year: 2014
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A Place for Drug Discovery
Al George, MD, Melds Genetics, Drug Discovery To Personalize Medicine
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Persuasive about Patient Care
Healthcare Lobbyist Takes Patient And Community Needs To Heart
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Mighty Mitochondria Make Comeback as Sensitive Communicators
Navdeep Chandel, PhD, David W. Cugell Distinguished Professor in Medicine-Pulmonary and Cell and Molecular Biology, focuses on the role of metabolism and signaling in disease.
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Predicting Major Blood Transfusion During Spine Surgery
A new model uses variables that can be determined before operating.
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Future Childbearing Less Likely after Cesarean Deliveries
Women in the United States who have cesarean sections are less likely to continue childbearing than those who deliver vaginally, but this relationship weakens for women living below the poverty line.
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Graduate Students Receive Innovation to Commercialization Fellowship
Two medical school graduate students received Innovation to Commercialization Fellowships to develop skills to be successful innovators and entrepreneurs.
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Target Identified to Inhibit Prostate Cancer Cells
Prostate cancer cells producing too much PIM1 are particularly sensitive to the inhibition of a protein called polo-like kinase (PLK1).
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Air Pollution Shown to Increase Lung Inflammation and Blood Clots
Northwestern Medicine scientists demonstrate that exposure to air pollution causes a stress response characterized by elevation in the level of the stress hormone adrenaline.
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Goldberger Awarded Schweitzer Fellowship to Help Incarcerated Women
Third-year medical student Adina Goldberger will use her Schweitzer Fellowship to develop and implement a discussion-based preventative health program for women currently incarcerated in the Cook County Jail.
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Diabetes Drug Inhibits Cancer Growth
Metformin, a drug used to lower insulin levels in diabetics, has been shown to halt tumor progression by cutting cancer cells’ energy supply.
