Category: Campus News
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$11.5 Million NCI Award to Accelerate Brain Tumor Research
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded a new, five-year $11.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to advance translational brain cancer research.
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Northwestern Hospitals Among the Best in Latest U.S. News Rankings
U.S. News & World Report recognized four Northwestern Medicine hospitals in its 2018-19 rankings of America’s Best Hospitals. The Shirley Ryan AbilityLab once again earned the top spot among rehabilitation hospitals in the country, and Lurie Children’s ranked first among children’s hospitals in Illinois.
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Lurie Cancer Center Earns Exceptional Rating from National Cancer Institute
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has been renewed for a fourth five-year grant, totaling $31.5 million and representing a 36 percent increase over its previous funding.
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‘Exceptional’ Science at the Lurie Cancer Center
This article was originally published in the Breakthroughs Newsletter. Find more stories like this, as well as the new Breakthroughs Podcast, on the Breakthroughs homepage. At the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, the collaborative team of investigators dedicated to confronting cancer has never been stronger. In August, the Lurie Cancer Center was awarded[…]
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DeVries Awarded Prize for Retinal Neurobiology
Steven DeVries, MD, PhD, was awarded the Brian Boycott Prize at the FASEB Science Research Conference on Retinal Neurobiology and Visual Processing.
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Feinberg Entrepreneurs Learn About Commercialization at INVOForward
Feinberg faculty members, scientists and students learned how to move their health information technologies toward commercialization at INVOForward, a mentorship program in biomedical entrepreneurship.
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Wertheim Named Associate Director for MSTP Admissions
Jason Wertheim, MD, PhD, vice chair for research in the Department of Surgery, has been named associate director for admissions of Feinberg’s Medical Scientist Training Program.
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Shilatifard Named Editor of Science Advances
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, has been appointed editor of Science Advances, an open-access journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which also publishes the journal Science.
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Feinberg Faculty to Lead Neuropathology Society
Two Northwestern faculty, including the chair of Pathology, will serve as president and vice president of the American Association of Neuropathologists.
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Simon Honored With Presidential Award for Mentorship
Melissa Simon, MD, MPH, the George H. Gardner Professor of Clinical Gynecology, has received the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
