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August 25, 2004 Auditorium Named for First African American Medical School Graduate CHICAGO— Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine will dedicate a new state-of-the-art auditorium and atrium to Daniel Hale Williams, MD, the school’s first African American graduate and faculty member and one of the most noteworthy physicians of the 20th Century. Dr. Williams served[…]

July 1, 2004 Contact: Wendy Leopold at 847/491-4890 or atw-leopold@northwestern.edu Brain Development, Puberty: Key to Learning Problems? EVANSTON, ILL.— A Northwestern University study is the first to suggest that delayed brain development and its interaction with puberty may be key factors contributing to language-based learning disabilities such as dyslexia. The article appears in the June[…]

July 21, 2004 In Memoriam (Leonid Calenoff) Leonid Calenoff, MD, professor emeritus of radiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died on July 16 in Illinois of complications from esophageal cancer. He was 80. Born in Vienna, Austria, Dr. Calenoff served as a medic in the Bulgarian Army during World War II. After the war,[…]

July 1, 2004 Gene Mutation Causes Cell Deficits in Aging CHICAGO— A mutation of the gene for lamin A protein gradually causes devastating effects on cellular structure and function in Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, a rare, fatal genetic condition characterized by an appearance of accelerated aging in children. A study on the lamin A gene mutation[…]

July 21, 2004 Hyperglycemia and Pregnancy Study Receives $9.2 Million CHICAGO— Northwestern University has received a four-year, $9.2 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Hyperglycemia and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome (HAPO) study. An additional $1.7 million has been awarded to fund the HAPO Data Coordinating Center. Boyd E. Metzger, MD,[…]

July 7, 2004 Nuzzarello Heads Office of Student Programs Angela Nuzzarello, MD, MHPE, has been appointed associate dean for student programs and professional development at the Feinberg School of Medicine. She succeeds Jack F. Snarr, PhD ’67, who retired earlier this month after 29 years as head of the Office of Student Affairs. Dr. Nuzzarello[…]

July 9, 2004 Keeping Summer Fun Safe Summer, with its warmer temperatures and sunny skies, entices everyone to get moving and enjoy the outdoors. While boosting activity levels can increase summer fun, the season presents hazards to personal health and safety if one does not exercise caution. “Active people are generally more susceptible to a[…]

June 7, 2004 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Nano Diagnostic Method Could Rival PCR EVANSTON— Since the advent of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) nearly 20 years ago, scientists have been trying to overturn this method for analyzing DNA with something better. The “holy grail” in this quest is a simple method[…]

Opera Buff Shares Passion with Students “Culture” for medical students doesn’t have to take place just in the laboratory. Thanks to the Feinberg School of Medicine’s participation in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s College Opera Circle, students are learning that their arts education isn’t over even when the “clinically obese” woman sings. A record number of[…]

June 10, 2004 Regulatable Gene Therapy May Advance Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease CHICAGO— Northwestern University neuroscientists have overcome a major obstacle in gene therapy research. They’ve devised a method that will safely deliver and regulate expression of therapeutic genes introduced into the central nervous system to treat Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases. The method,[…]