Byline: Sarah Plumridge
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Exploring Outcomes, Bioengineering and Immunology in Organ Transplantation
The Comprehensive Transplant Center Summer Student Immersion Program offers students from across the country an opportunity to work with a mentor to develop a research project in health services and outcomes research, bioengineering or immunology, focused on organ transplantation.
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Shilatifard Appointed to Senior Editorial Board of Science
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, was appointed to the senior editorial board of the scientific journal Science. In his new role, he will provide strategic advice and constructive feedback about the journal.
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Mapping the Health of Chicago’s Communities
First-year medical students analyzed the health assets of Chicago’s neighborhoods by visiting the community and listening to residents and community representatives and presented their findings at a poster session.
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Student Societies Connect Medical Students with Alumni
Feinberg’s student societies, a network of students across all four years of medical school, are hosting a series of Q and A conversations with alumni as part of a new program called “Real Physicians of Feinberg.”
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Tackling Gender and Sex Issues in Medical Education
Feinberg faculty members helped create new guidelines from the Association of American Medical Colleges for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve health care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or who are born with differences of sex development.
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Physician Assistant Students Explore Day of the Dead Traditions
First-year physician assistant students visited Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood to learn about Mexican culture and Day of the Dead traditions.
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Alzheimer’s “Buddies” Share their Experience
Jared Worthington, second-year medical student, Jean Schmidt Winship, program manager in the Physician Assistant Program and her husband presented on The Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center’s Buddy Program at the Canadian Health Summit in Toronto.
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Poster Presentations Showcase Student Research
Medical students presented their Area of Scholarly Concentration projects at a poster session on November 21.
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Uncovering the Mechanisms Behind Recovery from Childhood Egg Allergies
Northwestern Medicine scientists uncovered that allergic children who develop a natural tolerance to egg protein produce more of an anti-inflammatory protein, providing a potential biomarker to differentiate previously-allergic patients from children who still have the allergy.
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Genes Revealed that May Impact the Colonization of Beneficial Bacteria
Northwestern Medicine scientists identified bacteria genes and key factors that are required for host colonization in squid, which may lead to better understanding how humans develop symbiotic relationships with beneficial bacteria.
