Category: Campus News
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New Northwestern Memorial Hospital President Named
Richard J. Gannotta, DHA, FACHE, will work closely with the leadership of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine to advance Northwestern Medicine.
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Platanias Named Interim Director of Lurie Cancer Center
The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University has named Deputy Director Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine-Hematology/Oncology, interim director, effective immediately.
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Feinberg ALS Efforts Get Funding Boost
P. Hande Ozdinler, PhD, has been awarded three grants totaling more than $2.5 million. The funds will be used to increase her research efforts into the mechanisms behind amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Eckenhoff Lecture, Smart Symposium Highlight Science of Aging, Advocacy
Annual events hosted by the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society showcase research and educational activities related to aging, the terminally ill, and other vulnerable populations.
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New Publication Serves as Platform to Share Public Health News and Research
Two students in the PhD/MPH program launched the first edition of Northwestern Public Health Review.
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First Research Network for Women in STEM Unveiled
The new portal is designed exclusively for female scientists and engineers to provide crucial career development exposure within Chicagoland’s research community.
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Ion Channel Expert to Head Pharmacology
Most recently the chief of genetic medicine and director of the Institute for Integrative Genomics at Vanderbilt University, Alfred L. George Jr., MD, arrives at Feinberg on March 1, 2014.
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Health Crisis Planning Tool Will Help Seniors Stay in Homes
Feinberg scientist Lee Lindquist, MD, has received a research award to develop a web-based planning tool that will help seniors create a blueprint for their end-of-life care.
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Preventive Rheumatology Symposium Creates Buzz Around Emerging Field
The daylong event featured panel discussions and a poster session, as well as the announcement of the new Chang-Lee Family Professorship in Preventive Rheumatology.
