Author: kwm107
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Accelerating Pharmaceutical Discovery
NewCures at Northwestern University is a novel accelerator working to identify promising potential therapies in development, fund research into their viability, and promote their development as new drugs.
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Medical Student Applies Consulting Background to Healthcare Problems
Third-year medical student Ben Peipert co-founded Second Opinions, a student-run pro-bono consulting group, and brings his consulting skills to his research on quality of life in endocrine disorders.
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How the Brain Anticipates Errors and Encodes Expectations
New study demonstrates the midbrain’s role in encoding identity errors and how those are used to update expectations in the orbitofrontal cortex.
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Traveling to Support Medical School Diversity
Students, residents, faculty and staff recently traveled to San Francisco to attend the Student National Medical Association annual conference for current and future underrepresented minority medical students.
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Three Northwestern Faculty Named Elite Medical and Biological Engineering Fellows
Three Northwestern faculty members have been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.
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Northwestern Medical Student Chosen for Professional Ethics Program
George Freigeh was one of 14 medical students chosen for Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics, to participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland using the conduct of physicians in Nazi-occupied Europe as a way to reflect on medical ethics today.
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When Kids’ Autistic Brains Can’t Calm Down
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows how a breakdown in the development of inhibitory neurons helps explain autism’s link to epilepsy.
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Financial Losses Linked to Greater Risk of Death
A sudden loss of net worth in middle or older age is associated with a significantly higher risk of death, according to a new study.
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Abecassis Wins 2018 Tripartite Prize
Michael Abecassis, MD, MBA, the James Roscoe Miller Distinguished Professor of Medicine and founding director of the Comprehensive Transplant Center, has been named the winner of the 2018 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
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Alumnus David Skorton, MD, to Speak at 2018 Convocation
David Skorton, ‘74 MD, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will speak at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s convocation ceremony on Monday, May 21.
