Year: 2026
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PA Program Celebrates White Coat Ceremony
On Friday, June 5, the Physician Assistant Program Class of 2028 celebrated the beginning of their medical journey with a white coat ceremony.
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Intricate Molecular Mechanisms Help Bacteria Evade Immune Detection
Northwestern scientists have identified a novel mechanism utilized by the bacteria responsible for gonorrhea to evade immune detection and achieve widespread infection, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Blood Cell ‘Nurseries’ Upend Understanding of Human Physiology
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body’s most fundamental biological processes — how red blood cells are made — works differently in humans than previously thought, according to a new study published in Nature Genetics.
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Immunotherapy Strategy Shows Promise for Deadly Brain Cancer
A new immunotherapy strategy has shown promise in targeting one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer, according to a new study published in Nature.
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Combination Therapy Shows Promise in High-Risk Prostate Cancer, Study Finds
A large international clinical trial has found that adding the drug apalutamide to standard hormone therapy before and after prostate cancer surgery significantly improves outcomes for men with high-risk disease, according to details published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Understudied Enzyme Helps Pathogen Prosper, Study Finds
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has offered insight into how Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen, fine-tunes its internal RNA degradation machinery to survive stress and potentially cause infection.
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Identifying Immune Pathways Driving Aggressive Brain Cancers
A new study has uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the deadliest brain cancers evade the immune system, according to the study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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New GLP-1 Drug Promotes Weight Loss in Obesity
A new strategy for delivering GLP-1 drugs to patients with obesity or who were overweight resulted in up to an 11 percent reduction in body weight after 36 weeks, according to a randomized phase II clinical trial published in Nature Medicine.
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Master’s Program Revamped to Address Informatics Needs
The Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics program — previously known as the Master of Science in Health and Biomedical Informatics — will launch in the fall offering two tracks: one in bioinformatics and another in health informatics.
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Cryoprobe Improves Diagnostic Accuracy and Safety in Lung Biopsies
Transbronchial lung biopsy procedures performed with a 1.1 millimeter cryoprobe demonstrated higher diagnostic accuracy and safety than two-millimeter forceps in patients with lung nodules or masses and lung transplant, according to a recent randomized trial published in JAMA.
