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Student Investigators Experience Challenges of Exploration This summer 65 eager young investigators participated in Northwestern’s Medical Student Summer Research (MSSR) Program. Successfully competing for funding, participants worked with Feinberg School faculty mentors during the 10-week program. While they may not have made great breakthroughs, the students most certainly experienced the challenges of exploration in basic[…]

Feinberg School Annual Report Now Online The Feinberg School of Medicine’s last annual report is now available online. Only the Best 2001–02, which is available in a PDF document, chronicles the school’s efforts during the past academic year to be among the best in education, research, and clinical care. Leading off a year-end review of[…]

Construction Season in Full Swing As the foundation of Northwestern University’s Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center is completed and its superstructure begins to rise, excavation of the site for Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s (NMH) new Prentice Women’s Hospital has begun. Pending receipt of the final permit from the City of Chicago, Turner Construction has scheduled[…]

July 29, 2003 Estrogen Therapy Raises Risk Factors CHICAGO— Women who use estrogen replacement therapy to relieve menopausal symptoms are more likely to develop risk factors for potentially fatal irregular heartbeats (arrythmias) and heart attacks than women who take hormone therapy combining estrogen and progestin. Prior to the early termination of the estrogen plus progestin[…]

Helping Minority Students Achieve Goals The Feinberg School of Medicine is serving as home base for more than 40 students taking part in the Minority Medical Education Program (MMEP) that runs from June 16 to July 25. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Association of American Medical Colleges, the program aims to help[…]

July 8, 2003 Immune System Genes Stave Off HIV Infection CHICAGO— Researchers have new answers as to why some HIV-infected individuals don’t progress to full-blown AIDS as rapidly as other HIV-positive people. Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine scientist Steven M. Wolinsky, MD, and colleagues found that individuals with certain rare variations, or alleles, of[…]

July 8, 2003 Stem Cell Therapy Doesn’t Improve Cancer Outcome CHICAGO— Adding high-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation to conventional chemotherapy offers little benefit for women with primary breast cancer who are at high risk for recurrence, finds a study reported in the July 3 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. Moreover, toxicities[…]

July 29, 2003 ‘Suicide’ Enzymes May Be Missing Alzheimer’s Link CHICAGO— Feinberg School of Medicine researchers have found that caspases, a family of protein-cutting enzymes involved in programmed cell death (apoptosis), may be a missing link in the chain of molecular events leading to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative condition affecting an estimated[…]

Honors Program Selects Students for Entering Class Northwestern University’s baccalaureate/MD degree program, in which students complete three years of undergraduate work on the Evanston campus before entering the Feinberg School, has completed the admissions process for next fall’s entering class. A total of 509 applicants (up from 398 in 2002) vied for 45 available positions.[…]

Northwestern Welcomes New Residents and Fellows At the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, 250 new residents were welcomed during orientation sessions held at the member hospitals. On June 16, 28 residents began programs (pediatrics, pediatric neurology, and child and adolescent psychiatry) at Children’s Memorial Hospital (CMH), located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.[…]