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Home » Archives for February 2021

Month: February 2021

Clinical Breakthroughs
Feb 26, 2021

Evaluating Perioperative Chemotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

Perioperative chemotherapy treatment did not improve overall survival for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine clinical trial.

Campus News
Feb 25, 2021

Celebrating 75 Years of Partnership with the VA

A model forged at Northwestern, academic affiliations with Veteran’s hospitals changed American medicine — providing care for veterans, training for future physicians and advancing scientific discovery.

Disease Discoveries
Feb 25, 2021

Blocking Cell Division in Glioblastoma

Blocking the arginine methylation pathway, which helps brain tumor cells proliferate by promoting cell division, could improve cancer therapies, according to a recent study.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Feb 24, 2021

Northwestern Investigators Explore COVID-19 Treatments

Working with large, multicenter teams, Northwestern clinician-scientists have examined treatments for blood clotting in critically ill patients with COVID-19, and explored therapies that could reduce disease progression and hospitalization.

Disease Discoveries
Feb 23, 2021

Tackling Inflammation to Improve Heart Attack Recovery

Inhibiting an inflammatory pathway reduced heart attack-induced damage in experimental models, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.

Education News
Feb 23, 2021

Physical Therapy Student Helps Save a Life

Alyssa Martinez, a second-year student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, recently put her newly acquired medical skills to use to help save a man’s life.

Disease Discoveries
Feb 22, 2021

Untangling Cellular Changes in Pediatric Epilepsy

For the first time, Northwestern Medicine scientists have characterized how a genetic mutation associated with pediatric epilepsy affects neuron activity.

Scientific Advances
Feb 19, 2021

Inhibiting Protein Degradation May Prevent Cocaine-Induced Reward Behaviors

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered that inhibiting a specific autophagy protein found in dopaminergic neurons may prevent reward-related behaviors induced by cocaine misuse.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Feb 18, 2021

Identifying Therapeutic Targets for B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified a protein kinase called DYRK1A and its downstream substrates as potential therapeutic targets for treating pediatric patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Feb 17, 2021

Antibody Drug Improves Survival for Aggressive Breast Cancer

A new antibody drug demonstrated similar efficacy to currently available therapies to treat advanced ERBB2-positive breast cancer, according to a recent clinical trial.

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