Feinberg’s Women Faculty Organization honored Joan Brugge, PhD, director of the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School, with the Distinguished Women in Medicine and Science Award.
On April 29 and 30, more than 400 alumni and guests visited Feinberg to reunite with old friends, share memories and catch up on the latest happenings at the medical school.
Two Feinberg faculty members received Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards for projects exploring autism spectrum disorder and Crohn’s disease.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s new 242-bed research hospital will put scientists and physicians in shared spaces, allowing innovation and treatment to collide.
Lifang Hou, MD, PhD, chief of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in the Department of Preventive Medicine, has been named a member of a blue ribbon panel that will help inform the scientific direction of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
Feinberg ranked 18th among U.S. medical schools in total National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding in 2015, according to calculations by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.