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Home » Archives for November 2021

Month: November 2021

Clinical Breakthroughs
Nov 30, 2021

Predicting Which Glioblastoma Patients Will Respond to Immunotherapy

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new biomarker to identify which patients with brain tumors called glioblastomas — the most common and malignant of primary brain tumors — might benefit from immunotherapy.

Campus News
Nov 30, 2021

$12.5 Million to Fund ALS Research at Northwestern

Neurodegenerative Disease Research Inc. has made a five-year, $12.5 million philanthropic commitment to Northwestern to support research in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) led by Teepu Siddique, MD.

Disease Discoveries
Nov 30, 2021

Northwestern Scientists Investigate COVID-19 Vaccines, Tests and Disparities

Northwestern Medicine scientists continue to tackle every facet of the COVID-19 pandemic, from investigating coronavirus vaccines’ potential for providing immunity against similar coronaviruses to developing novel rapid antigen-based tests and examining disparities in COVID-19 case and mortality rates in Chicago.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Nov 29, 2021

Drug May Benefit Patients with Heart Failure

Dapagliflozin, a drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, improved heart failure-related symptoms and physical limitations in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

Clinical Breakthroughs
Nov 24, 2021

Identifying Cancer Biomarkers for Immunotherapy Response

Scientists have discovered a potential biomarker that could more accurately identify which patients with non-hypermutated cancers will respond to specialized immunotherapy drugs.

Disease Discoveries
Nov 23, 2021

Combination Therapy Reduces Toxic Aggregates in Parkinson’s Disease

A combination of drugs could fix the broken lysosomal enzyme pathway in Parkinson’s disease-afflicted neurons, according to a recent study.

Education News
Nov 22, 2021

NUPOC Students Create Teddy Bear Braces for Lurie Children’s Patients

On November 5, students in the Master of Prosthetics & Orthotics (MPO) program through Northwestern’s Prosthetics-Orthotics Center constructed more than 50 braces for teddy bears gifted to pediatric patients at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

Disease Discoveries
Nov 19, 2021

Respiratory Virus Reprograms Airway Epithelial Cells

Respiratory syncytial virus infection during infancy results in metabolic reprogramming in epithelial cells lining the airway, according to a recent study.

Disease Discoveries
Nov 17, 2021

How Herpes Checks Into the Nervous System for Life

A new Northwestern Medicine study has uncovered herpes’ sneaky strategy for infecting the nervous system, opening a path to long-needed vaccine development for the virus.

Campus News
Nov 17, 2021

Northwestern Receives Grant to Support Equity in Biomedicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has been awarded a $550,000 grant to support the retention of early-career clinician investigators experiencing family caregiving challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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