Author: medweb
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Class of 2016 Student Profile
The 161 members of the Class of 2016 entered their first year of medical school in August 2012. Members of the class have a collective total of 78 undergraduate majors, ranging from biomedical engineering to political science, speak 26 different languages, and hail from 33 states and nine foreign countries.
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Summer Business Program for Doctoral STEM Students First of its Kind
Determined to get an edge in a difficult job market, 50 doctoral students in science and engineering at Northwestern University are honing their real-world management skills this summer in an eight-week leadership program drawing on coursework from the Kellogg School of Management core MBA curriculum.
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Frader Being Honored by AAP with Award for Ethical Excellence
Joel Frader, MD, professor in pediatrics and medical humanities and bioethics, is being honored this fall by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the 2012 William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.
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Physician-Scientist Retreat Focuses on Student Research Projects
A two-day overnight retreat, August 4-5, involved a combination of scientific and social activities in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The retreat offers an opportunity for MSTP students to present their work, and hear presentations from MD/PhD graduates and outside physician-scientists.
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Study Explores Risky Use of Steroid for Sex Normalization in Fetuses
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.
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Feinberg Alumnus Dedicates Career to Helping to Eliminate Health Disparities
Charles Modlin, MD’87, MBA remembers spending time in the anatomy classroom as a freshman medical student and playing trumpet in the annual student comedy show IN VIVO, but it was his third-year clinical rotations in medical school that had the longest-lasting impact on his professional life, igniting his passion to help eliminate health disparities.
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Uncovering the Rules Governing Gene Transcription
A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University’s Physical Sciences-Oncology Center report important methodological advances that will enable a better understanding of how gene expression is regulated, both in normal cells and in cancer cells. This knowledge could lead to the development of more effective therapeutic agents to treat cancer patients.
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Physician-Scientist Training Program Fast Tracks Trainees
The Department of Medicine’s Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is designed for students entering an internship with a combined MD/PhD or an MD degree with a record of intensive research experience. Third-year Resident Whitney Stevens, MD, PhD, shares her experiences in the program.
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Researching the Sea’s Greatest Foodborne Killer
Karla Satchell, PhD, associate professor in microbiology-immunology, and her team of toxin biologists are trying to learn what makes Vibrio vulnificus, found in shellfish, so deadly.
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Bevan Given Prestigious Javits Neuroscience Award
Mark Bevan, PhD, associate professor in physiology, has been granted a Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
