Author: medweb
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Your Memory is like the Telephone Game
A Northwestern Medicine study is the first to show that every time you remember an event from the past, your brain networks change in ways that can alter the later recall of the event.
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Shulman Helps Revise Strep Throat Guidelines
Although people often say they have strep throat, most sore throats actually are caused by a virus, not streptococcus bacteria, and shouldn’t be treated with antibiotics, suggest guidelines published by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.Stanford Shulman, MD, professor in pediatrics, chaired an expert panel that reviewed hundreds of studies to develop new strep throat…
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Alumnus Receives Prestigious 2012 Lasker Award
Thomas Starzl, MD/PhD ’52, who performed the first successful liver transplant in 1967, received the 2012 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award in honor of his role in the development of liver transplantation.
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Mustanski Awarded $5.2 million in Fight against HIV/AIDS
Brian Mustanski, PhD, associate professor of medical social sciences, has been awarded two grants totaling $5.2 million to use technology as a tool for HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men.
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Cianciotto named director of Driskill Graduate Training Program
Longtime faculty member Nicholas Cianciotto, professor of microbiology-immunology, has been named director of the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in the Life Sciences.
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Predicting the Future Success of Scientists
A new Northwestern Medicine study published Sept. 13 in Nature offers the first formula that accurately predicts a young scientist’s success up to 10 years into the future, and could be useful for hiring and funding decisions.
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First-Year Student Performs CPR on the Lakefront
Anna Whelan, a first-year medical student, was running along Lake Michigan on Aug. 21 when she noticed two people kneeling over a man lying on the ground. The man had no pulse, and Whelan performed CPR and coached others on how to help, applying what she learned during her first weeks in medical school.
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Doctor of Medicine/Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
Many Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students choose to enhance their MD education by simultaneously working toward a master’s degree that concentrates on the legal, historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts of medicine.
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Surmeier Presented Multi-Million Dollar Blueprint for Neuroscience Research Award
James Surmeier, PhD, chair of physiology, has been awarded a prestigious Blueprint for Neuroscience Research grant to research and develop a neuroprotective treatment for Parkinson’s disease. For the first time in his career, Surmeier will be working with the pharmaceutical industry to bring a drug into existence.
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Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences Day Showcases Research, Sparks Curiosity
The second annual Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (MRS) Training Day highlighted MRS research at Northwestern University and brought together students, post-docs, and faculty from various departments within Northwestern and affiliated institutions.
