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May 20, 2003 $6.8 Million Grant Funds Alzheimer’s Study CHICAGO— Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine has received a $6.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to unravel the molecular triggers that cause overactivation of glia brain cells that leads to neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and other diseases. Glia are important cells[…]

Cancer Survivors’ Walk Draws 4,000 Approximately 4,000 cancer survivors, friends, family members, and others touched by cancer participated in the 10th Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration and Walk, which kicked off June 1 at 9 a.m. at Chicago’s Grant Park. The five-mile, lakefront walk was sponsored by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern[…]

16th Century Meets the 21st on Vesalius Web Site A translation of Andreas Vesalius’ anatomy atlas, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) can now be viewed on the Web at vesalius.northwestern.edu/ . First published in 1543 and revised in 1555, the atlas “offers a detailed account of human anatomy and[…]

Alumni Weekend Slated for April 25-26 Nearly 400 Northwestern medical alumni and their guests will celebrate Alumni Weekend 2003, April 25–26, as well as two historic events: the 135th anniversary of the first meeting of the Medical Alumni Association and the medical school’s 100th alumni weekend. The annual reunion will feature informative lectures, campus and[…]

Dean’s Clinical Research Day Slated for May 8 The Feinberg School of Medicine will hold its first Dean’s Clinical Research Day on Thursday, May 8, from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. in Conference Room A of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg Pavilion. Focusing on reproductive science, the program features Jean D. Wilson, MD, clinical professor of internal medicine[…]

April 17, 2003 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Federal Grant Funds Reproductive Center EVANSTON, ILL.— Northwestern University has received $5.65 million over five years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to establish the multidisciplinary Center for Reproductive Research (CRR) at Northwestern. The center seeks innovative answers to female[…]

Medical Students Named Research Scholars Two students at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have been selected for the 2003–04 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Scholars Research Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Third-year student Maulik D. Majmudar of Germantown, Maryland, and second-year student Sima P. Patel of Diamond Bar,[…]

April 18, 2003 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Nanotechnology May Help Overcome Current Limitations of Gene Therapy CHICAGO— Scientists from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Argonne National Laboratory have created a hybrid “nanodevice” composed of a “scaffolding” of titanium oxide nanocrystals attached with snippets of DNA that may[…]

Public Invited to Free Lecture on Genetic Testing As part of its ongoing effort in public education, the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Genetic Medicine is holding a free lecture for the public, “Genetic Testing and Common Disease.” Learn how genetic testing will be applied to common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s[…]

Northwestern’s Feinberg School Moves Up in Rankings In its annual survey of deans and senior faculty members at the nation’s 125 medical schools, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine 21st (up from 22nd last year) among research-intensive medical schools. Northwestern holds that ranking in a three-way tie with[…]