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Student Group the Jugulars Juggle More Than Books, Courses Jugulars members and second-year medical students Andrew Haynes, Andrew Morris, and Andrew Ketterer practice their juggling skills with former club president and third-year student Sam Yu. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s juggling club, the Jugulars, offers medical students an opportunity to put their textbooks down[…]

Dr. Alan W. Yasko, 1958-2010 By Margaret RamirezThe Chicago Tribune August 23, 2010 Alan W. Yasko, MD, MBA, FACS, professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, passed away from a pulmonary embolism on August 19. Alan W. Yasko, MD ’84, MBA, FACS, 51, an internationally known bone cancer surgeon and chief of[…]

Baroness Julia Neuberger to Give Eckenhoff Lecture Baroness Julia Neuberger, a rabbi, social reformer, and member of the House of Lords, will present at the 15th Annual James E. and Bonnie L. Eckenhoff Lecture on September 2. Baroness Julia Neuberger, a rabbi, social reformer, and member of the House of Lords, will give the 15th[…]

Students Pursue Research Interests, PhD through Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program The Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN) PhD program admits 20-25 students annually to its six-year program . Students complete three laboratory rotations and then disburse into thesis-focused research lab in their quest to earn a PhD in neuroscience. A collaboration between the Feinberg[…]

What Makes a Good Egg and Healthy Embryo? Discovery About Zinc’s Role May Help in Future Fertility Treatments Scientists as well as fertility doctors have long tried to figure out what makes a good egg that will produce a healthy embryo. It’s a particularly critical question for fertility doctors deciding which eggs isolated from a[…]

Summer Research Program Prepares High School Students for Careers in Science, Medicine Neel Patel (left), a junior at Northside College Preparatory, is spending his summer vacation assisting in a cancer research laboratory led by John Salsman, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences. Four Northwestern University faculty members volunteered to host[…]

Feinberg Researcher Michael Wolf Awarded Fulbright Scholarship As a Fulbright Scholar, Michael S. Wolf, PhD, MPH, MA, associate professor of medicine and associate division chief of research in the Feinberg Division of General Internal Medicine, plans to focus on several research projects that investigate the feasibility of promoting health literacy in the areas of medication[…]

$10.2 Million to Expand Study of Delinquent Youth Funds will be used to investigate how incarceration affects health disparities in HIV/AIDS Linda A. Teplin, PhD, Owen L. Coon Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is the principal investigator on a study recently awarded $10 million-plus from the National Institutes of Health to expand research on[…]

PA Program Offers Students an Innovative Curriculum that is Directly Applicable to Clinical Practice The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine recently welcomed the first class of students to its Physician Assistant (PA) Program, a two-year graduate program that awards students a Master of Medical Sciences degree. James Van[…]

New Arsenic Nanoparticle Blocks Aggressive Breast Cancer You can teach an old drug new chemotherapy tricks. Northwestern University researchers took a drug therapy proven for blood cancers but ineffective against solid tumors, packaged it with nanotechnology and got it to combat an aggressive type of breast cancer prevalent in young women, particularly young African-American women.[…]