New faculty members, Guillermo Oliver, PhD, and Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, PhD, joined the Department of Medicine and the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute.
The NUCATS Institute and the Innovation and New Ventures Office recently announced the recipients of funding to assist promising biomedical research and moving it into a self-supporting commercial pathway.
Prostate cancer physician-scientist Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the departments of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Influential neurosurgical oncologist Maciej Lesniak, MD, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, effective November 1.
Feinberg faculty, staff and students participated in lectures, workshops and presentations during the 5th Annual Medical Education Day.
Teresa Mastin, PhD, the new Director of Diversity and Inclusion, joins Feinberg to strengthen and expand diversity and inclusion efforts across the medical school.
Dan Foltz, ’02 PhD, Panagiotis Ntziachristos, PhD, and Marc Mendillo, PhD, have joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
At the Fourth Annual Driskill Day, students, faculty members and alumni gathered to present research, recognize achievement and celebrate the Walter S. and Lucienne Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences.
Alisha Thomas, ’05 MD, instructor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine, has been recognized with the Exemplary Teaching Award for volunteer faculty by the American Association of Family Physicians.
A multi-center team of scientists have received funding from the National Cancer Institute to develop compounds that may lead to an entirely new treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). The grant, which will provide $1.58 million over three years, will support medicinal chemistry, molecular modeling, and biological testing to optimize small molecule CXCR4-receptor antagonists and…