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Year: 2021

Scientific Advances
Dec 2, 2021

Mistreatment is Common Among LGBTQ Surgery Residents

U.S. surgical residents who identify as LGBTQ+ reported higher rates of mistreatment in their training programs than their non-LGBTQ+ peers, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.

Campus News
Dec 1, 2021

Cella to Step Down as Chair of Medical Social Sciences

David Cella, PhD, the Ralph Seal Paffenbarger Professor, has announced that he will be stepping down as chair of the Department of Medical Social Sciences, the department he helped establish in 2009.

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.

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