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NUCATS Pilot Grant Awardees Think Outside the Box Above is an image of gold nanoparticle probes binding to a human breast cancer cell line from the research of Drs. Odom and Zhang. The Northwestern University Clinical Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute announces the recipients of the first Center for Translational Innovation pilot grant competition. These awardees[…]

Troubled Youths Struggle After Detention Center Stay Dr. Karen Abram The kids who pass through juvenile detention facilities are among the most troubled youths in the community. How do they fare a few years after this significant brush with the legal system? Researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine interviewed youths ages 13 to[…]

Medical Student Joins Surgical Relief Team Medical student Michael Granieri (left) and patient. Michael Granieri, a second-year medical student from Chicago, got a head start on his surgical rotation recently when he accompanied Christopher Gonzalez, MD, MBA, associate professor of urology, and medical residents Neema Navai, and Oni Okotie to the tiny village of San[…]

STAR Lights the Way for Childhood Cancer Survivors Dr. Aarati Didwania The STAR (Survivors Taking Action & Responsibility) program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is one of only a handful of programs in the country that focus on comprehensive health care of adults who are survivors of childhood cancer.[…]

Black History Month—Dr. Pugh Makes the News ABC News recently profiled Carla Pugh, MD, PhD, assistant professor of surgery and director of the Center for Advanced Surgical Education, for a segment during Black History Month. A surgeon, patent holder, and medical education researcher, Dr. Pugh is also a role model for Chicago youth. View the[…]

JAMA Study Reveals Further Refinement of Bionic Arm Dr. Todd Kuiken The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC), the nation’s #1 rehabilitation hospital, announces its Center for Bionic Medicine has harnessed a new pattern recognition technique that allows quicker and more refined control for myoelectric arms used in combination with the Targeted Muscle Reinnervation (TMR) procedure,[…]

Science Web Site Speaks Lay Person’s Language Science in Society provides attractive, consolidated, and searchable information about Northwestern’s research and outreach activities—written for a non-scientific audience. Sponsored by the Office for Research and conceived and developed by the Center for Genetic Medicine, the site covers a wide range of disciplines, from medicine to nanotechnology to[…]

Goldman Lab Continues Landmark Progeria Research Dr. Robert Goldman Robert Goldman, PhD, Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology and chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, is well known for his pioneering research into the structure and function of the nuclear lamins, one subgroup of the large family of intermediate filament proteins.[…]

MEDICAL CAMPUS RESEARCH ENHANCES OUR HEALTH CHICAGO — Medical research enhances our health and the quality of our lives — from unlocking the mysterious trigger of Alzheimer’s disease to discovering a new treatment for stroke injury to developing new strategies for prevention of childhood and adult obesity. The medical campus institutions — Northwestern Memorial Hospital,[…]

STEM CELL TRANSPLANT REVERSES EARLY-STAGE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Dr. Richard Burt Researchers from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine appear to have reversed the neurological dysfunction of early-stage multiple sclerosis patients by transplanting their own immune stem cells into their bodies and thereby “resetting” their immune systems. “This is the first time we have turned the[…]