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All-Campus Research Day Slated for March 4 Approximately 150 poster presentations, plus break-out sessions and seminars, will be featured during the Feinberg School’s All-Campus Research Day on March 4. The event is sponsored by the Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization (WFO). Male and female faculty members and students from all disciplines are invited to attend.[…]

“Charlie and the Doctor Factory” Plays January 30 and 31 This year’s In Vivo production, “Charlie and the Doctor Factory,” will be presented Friday, January 30, and Saturday, January 31, on the Thorne Auditorium stage, located at 375 East Chicago Avenue, on Northwestern University’s Chicago campus. Showtime is 7 p.m. both nights. Tickets are $8[…]

Scientists Grow Neurons Using Nanostructures Scientists at Northwestern University have designed synthetic molecules that promote neuron growth, a promising development that could lead to the reversal of paralysis due to spinal cord injury. “We have created new materials that because of their chemical structure interact with cells of the central nervous system in ways that[…]

New PhD/MPH Program Offered A new program leading to both PhD and MPH degrees has been created by the Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (IGP) and the MPH Program of the Department of Preventive Medicine. This distinctive field of study will train students in both laboratory research and interdisciplinary public health fields. Graduates[…]

In Memoriam (George Pollock) George H. Pollock, MD, PhD, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died of heart disease December 12 in a Houston hospital. He was 80. A native Chicagoan, Dr. Pollack graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago medical school in 1945. His experience treating[…]

Medical Student Appears on “Wheel of Fortune” Second-year Feinberg School of Medicine student Ron Chacko says his mother is a big fan of the game show, “Wheel of Fortune.” “Growing up I used to watch ‘Wheel of Fortune’ almost every weeknight with my mom” at their home in Memphis, Tennessee, he says. “When I heard[…]

Gene Technique Targets Alzheimer’s Memory Loss Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have prevented learning and memory deficits in a model of Alzheimer’s disease using a gene-targeting approach to block production of beta-amyloid, or “senile” plaques, one of the hallmarks of the disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition affecting more than 15 million people worldwide[…]

Northwestern Remembers Lou Boshes Dollie’s Corner, the leisure reading room of the medical library at the Feinberg School of Medicine, seemed an especially appropriate setting on January 20 for the Northwestern community to remember loyal alumnus and renowned neurologist Louis D. Boshes, MD. Holder of two degrees from Northwestern (BS 1931, MD 1936), Dr. Boshes[…]

January 6, 2004 Tips to Reduce Risk of ‘Cruise Ship Virus’ CHICAGO— Before you leave for that winter cruise, experts from the Travel Medicine and Immunization Center at the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation would like to have a few words with you: Viral gastroenteritis. Norwalk virus. “Cruise ship virus.” Viral gastroenteritis is an infection that[…]

In Memoriam (Oscar Davis) Oscar F. Davis, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died January 20 of cardiac arrest in his car in the parking lot of Northwestern Memorial Hospital after making rounds; he was 75. Dr. Davis held a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry[…]