Northwestern Medicine scientists demonstrate that exposure to air pollution causes a stress response characterized by elevation in the level of the stress hormone adrenaline.
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David Kamp, MD, completed his residency and fellowship at Northwestern, where he now studies a range of lung disorders as well as cellular apoptosis, a process of programmed cell death.
For his work studying how environmental stress affects the lungs, GR Scott Budinger, MD, associate professor in Medicine-Pulmonary and Cell and Molecular Biology, was recently elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Medical students, residents, faculty members and alumni were welcomed into the Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society yesterday.
Kathryn Radigan, MD, has received an Early Career Investigator Award from the American Thoracic Society Foundation to study the link between leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and obesity, and an increased susceptibility to influenza A-induced lung injury.
Cara Gottardi, PhD, is using a Pilot Project grant from the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center to study why half of the system that sticks cells together seems to pull double-duty, gravitating toward the nucleus and affecting gene expression.
Four medical school faculty members were elected into two prestigious professional societies, the Association of American Physicians and the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
New research by Navdeep Chandel, PhD, suggests that mitochondria may be vastly more important than just the power source for cells. In a series of publications, Chandel illustrates his belief that mitochondria evolved to conduct biosynthesis rather than create energy, using reactive oxygen species as a mode of communicating the biosynthetic fitness of the organelle.
A list of honors, awards, and faculty appointments from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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