Northwestern investigators are building a multi-disciplinary enterprise that is making critical discoveries in maternal-fetal health, with significant clinical implications and real-world consequences.
Year: 2019
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, was elected president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an honor society of physician-scientists founded in 1908.
Feinberg has been named as one of the top 20 best research-oriented medical schools in the country, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
A recent Northwestern Medicine study found that patients with glioblastoma responded better or worse to immunotherapy depending on the presence of certain mutations in their tumors.
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that an existing therapy used to treat Alzheimer’s disease might also work on patients with Primary Progressive Aphasia, a type of dementia that destroys language and currently has no treatment.
First-time women principal investigator scientists received considerably less funding from the National Institutes of Health compared to first-time male principal investigators, reports a new Northwestern study published in JAMA.
Barbara Meyer, PhD, will deliver the keynote address at Feinberg’s 15th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day, held Thursday, April 4, 2019.
According to a recent study, a novel nanoparticle-based drug repaired neurons and improved microvasculature in a mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia 1, a degenerative disease that affects the cerebellum.
An interdisciplinary Northwestern University team has developed a pair of soft, flexible wireless sensors that replace the tangle of wire-based sensors that currently monitor babies in hospitals’ neonatal intensive care units and pose a barrier to parent-baby cuddling and physical bonding.
Ankit Bharat, MBBS, the Harold L. & Margaret N. Method Research Professor of Surgery, has been named chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery.