Student group Queers and Allies recently celebrated the release of the medical school’s first annual OutList, one of many programs and resources it facilitates to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals at Feinberg and to improve health within the LGBT community.
Year: 2015
Thomas Shanley, MD, takes on leadership roles at Feinberg and Lurie Children’s Hospital and shares his plans to increase collaboration between scientists, advance discoveries and make a bigger impact on the health of children.
Serdar Bulun, MD, chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, will be a national resource and advisor on women’s health issues as a newly-elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, formerly the Institute of Medicine.
Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH and Jane Winter, MD, have been elected to the executive committee of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
In a new paper, graduate student Evan Weber showed that endothelial protein TRPC6 is the specific calcium channel that helps white blood cells migrate from blood vessels into inflamed tissues and organs.
A recent study sheds new light on how an animal’s biological clock wakes it up in the morning and puts it to sleep at night.
Stephen Gryzlo, MD, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Feinberg and team orthopaedist for the Chicago Cubs, discusses sports medicine and the team’s focus on health.
An RNA editing technique called ‘exon skipping’ has shown preliminary success in treating a rare and severe form of muscular dystrophy that currently has no treatment.
Robert Bonow, MD, the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, has been named editor-in-chief of JAMA Cardiology, a new journal in the JAMA Network that will debut in 2016.
In a phase three clinical trial, a new enzyme replacement therapy resulted in a reduction in multiple disease-related symptoms in children and adults with lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.