Byline: Nora Dunne
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Mapping the Stages of Motor Memory
A recent study conducted by Feinberg postdoctoral fellow Sungshin Kim, PhD, used neuroimaging to show how motor learning unfolds in the brain over time.
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Mutation Unique to Childhood Kidney Cancer Discovered
A recent study led by Elizabeth Perlman, MD, discovered a new genetic mutation in the most common type of pediatric kidney cancer, Wilms tumor.
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Targeting Immunosuppression in Brain Tumors
Research conducted in the laboratory of Derek Wainwright, PhD, assistant professor of Neurological Surgery, explores strategies to reverse pathways that inhibit the body’s immune system from fighting glioblastoma.
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Common Heart Medication Doesn’t Work for All
Patients with a specific type of heart failure were less active when taking a commonly prescribed nitrate medication thought to improve exercise capacity, according to a recent study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine investigator Sanjiv Shah, MD.
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New Roles for Mitochondria Uncovered
A new Northwestern Medicine study led by Navdeep Chandel, PhD, challenges the common understanding that energy production is mitochondria’s most important function.
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Accelerating Prostate Cancer Research
Northwestern Medicine scientists have received a five-year, $11 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute (NCI) to lead a Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) in prostate cancer.
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Revealing a Neurotransmitter’s Role in Critical Brain Region
Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered that nitric oxide is part of a new form of cell learning in the striatum, the region of the brain involved in the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.
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Preventing Cells From Developing Into Tumors
A recent study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine scientist Robert Goldman, PhD, and colleagues suggests that degradation of lamin B1, a protein located in the nucleus of cells, helps suppress tumor formation.
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Improving Movement After Stroke and Brain Injury
Injections of botulinum toxin improved active arm movement for stroke and brain trauma patients in a clinical trial that involved Northwestern Medicine co-investigator Christina Marciniak, MD, ’85 GME.
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New Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Announced
Kelly Michelson, MD, MPH, ’04 GME, has been named director of Feinberg’s newly formed Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities.
