Category: Campus News
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Weintraub Appointed to Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Elder Law
Sandra Weintraub, PhD, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the Division of Psychology and associate director of the Northwestern Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center in the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease, was recently appointed to the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Elder Law.
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AOA Honors New Members
Feinberg’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society welcomed 42 new members in a ceremony on March 15, recognizing outstanding educational achievement and significant contributions to medicine.
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Lieber Receives VA Rehabilitation Research and Development Award
Richard Lieber, PhD, MBA, professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, has received the 2023 Paul B. Magnuson Award from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for Outstanding Achievement in Rehabilitation Research and Development.
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McGaw Hosts Third Annual Health Equity Week
McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University recently hosted the third annual Health Equity Week, a week-long series of educational programming exploring healthcare inequities and disparities, and solutions to address them.
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Understanding the Role of Long-Lived Mitochondrial Proteins
Ewa Bomba-Warczak, PhD, is employing metabolic stable isotope pulse-chase labelling and high-resolution shotgun mass spectrometry to track and characterize long-lived mitochondrial proteins in the brain throughout a mouse’s lifespan.
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Harvard Medical School Dean to Speak at 2023 Commencement
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, dean of Harvard Medical School and the Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, will address graduates, their families and guests at Feinberg’s 164th commencement ceremony on Monday, May 15.
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Northwestern to Co-Lead New CZ Biohub Chicago
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has selected Northwestern University to co-lead its new biomedical research hub in Chicago, which will develop new technologies for studying human tissues with unprecedented resolution.
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Kennedy Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Ann Kennedy, PhD, assistant professor of Neuroscience, has been awarded a 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Prindle Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
Arthur Prindle, PhD, has received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation.
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Investigating the Brain-Gut Connection
Early results have shown that mice with traumatic brain injuries benefit from receiving a dose of healthy gut bacteria.
