MPH/PhD student Erin Lambers identified mechanisms that shed light on how cardiac cells develop from stem cells, which can help scientists better understand how the heart grows and regenerates.
Year: 2016
Second-year medical students built a web app to help teach fellow classmates and prepare for upcoming exams.
By rotating special magnetic nanoparticles injected into brain tumors, a team of scientists led by Northwestern Medicine neurosurgical oncologist Maciej (Matt) Lesniak, MD, successfully damaged tumor cells in animal models.
Melina Kibbe, MD, ’03 GME, Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research, will be chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
The Women’s Health Research Institute’s Leadership Council hosted a special celebration of the recently announced National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration policies to include women in basic science and clinical studies.
Patients with cancer who watched personalized educational videos before their first visit with an oncologist were better equipped to consider participating in clinical trials, reports a paper co-authored by Northwestern Medicine investigator Al B. Benson, III, MD.
Catherine Wicklund, MS, CGC, director of the Genetic Counseling Program, shares the program’s plans for the increasing need for genetic counselors.
Rex Chisholm, PhD, vice dean of Scientific Affairs and Graduate Education, co-authored two recent papers that used electronic health records to explore patient genetic data, including genes inherited from early humans.
Five Northwestern scientists have been inducted into The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.
Scientist Chad Mirkin, PhD, has been recognized with the prestigious 2016 Dan David Prize, in the Future Time dimension, for his trailblazing breakthroughs in nanoscience that hold great promise for improvement of our world.