A phase III clinical trial including Northwestern Medicine investigator Steven Flamm, MD, tested a new combination of antiviral drugs for hepatitis C patients with late-stage cirrhosis.
Month: January 2016
The Department of Ophthalmology has received an $115,000 unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness to support research into the causes, treatment and prevention of blinding diseases.
First-year medical student Martin Mutonga was the first author of a recent paper that identified a potential drug target in acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
A recent study conducted by Feinberg postdoctoral fellow Sungshin Kim, PhD, used neuroimaging to show how motor learning unfolds in the brain over time.
Rodrigo Garrido Cáceres, the first physical therapist exchange student from the University of San Sebastian in Chile, spent six-weeks this fall at Feinberg.
A recent study led by Elizabeth Perlman, MD, discovered a new genetic mutation in the most common type of pediatric kidney cancer, Wilms tumor.
Research conducted in the laboratory of Derek Wainwright, PhD, assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, explores strategies to reverse pathways that inhibit the body’s immune system from fighting glioblastoma.
Patients with a specific type of heart failure were less active when taking a commonly prescribed nitrate medication thought to improve exercise capacity, according to a recent study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine investigator Sanjiv Shah, MD.
Sen. Dick Durbin visited Feinberg to highlight importance of medical research and discussed a $2 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health in 2016.
The Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center held a closing ceremony for their second graduating class of Masters of Prosthetics and Orthotics students.