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  • Cell-Based Treatments to Fight Diseases with Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD 

    Cell-Based Treatments to Fight Diseases with Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD 

    Cell and Developmental Biology is a field that’s integral to finding new therapies for a wide variety of diseases. At Feinberg, Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, a vascular biologist, leads the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology as chair. In this episode, talks about her research and the future of cell-based treatments for diseases.

  • Investigating Therapies for Genetic Epilepsy with Alfred George, Jr., MD

    Investigating Therapies for Genetic Epilepsy with Alfred George, Jr., MD

    Alfred George, Jr., MD, is a pioneer in understanding the mechanisms by which ion channel mutations cause a variety of inherited disorders, such as genetic epilepsy. He discusses his recent breakthroughs in the field and his optimism for future RNA therapeutics to treat rare genetic diseases.

  • The Role of Iron in Cardiovascular Disease with Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD 

    The Role of Iron in Cardiovascular Disease with Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD 

    Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death globally, and nearly half of all U.S. adults are currently at risk for heart attack and stroke. Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, is working to understand the role of iron and metabolic processes in cardiovascular disease and develop new therapies that target iron accumulation in people…

  • Life-Changing Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Patients with Jennifer Schneiderman, MD

    Life-Changing Gene Therapy for Beta-Thalassemia Patients with Jennifer Schneiderman, MD

    A novel gene therapy promoted transfusion independence in more than 90 percent of adult and pediatric patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. Study co-author Jennifer Schneiderman, MD, discusses results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

  • Pet Dogs Advance Glioblastoma Research with Amy Heimberger, MD

    Pet Dogs Advance Glioblastoma Research with Amy Heimberger, MD

    Man’s best friend is helping scientists find new treatments for brain tumors. Amy Heimberger, MD, is a board-certified neurosurgeon with extensive training and experience in the field of immunology. She is part of a promising new study in canine glioblastoma that could lead to more effective human glioblastoma clinical trials.

  • Music-Based Medical Interventions with Borna Bonakdarpour, MD

    Music-Based Medical Interventions with Borna Bonakdarpour, MD

    Music-based medical interventions can have remarkable therapeutic benefits for patients diagnosed with cognitive impairments such as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and aphasia. Neurologist Borna Bonakdarpour, MD, explains how he is using and studying these clinical interventions through the new Northwestern Music and Medicine Program.

  • New Approaches for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction with Sanjiv Shah, MD

    New Approaches for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction with Sanjiv Shah, MD

    Nearly half of all patients with heart failure have preserved ejection fraction, or HFpEF, yet there is much that is unknown about HFpEF and how to best prevent it and treat it. Northwestern Medicine cardiologist, Sanjiv Shah, ’00 MD, leads the world’s first clinical program dedicated to the study of heart failure with HFpEF. He…

  • Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and HIV/AIDs Pandemics with Richard D’Aquila, MD

    Lessons Learned from COVID-19 and HIV/AIDs Pandemics with Richard D’Aquila, MD

    Accelerating new advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases is an important goal of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) and the past two years have been a crucial time for the study of infectious diseases. Richard D’Aquila, MD, professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at…

  • Leading Family & Community Medicine at Northwestern with Deborah Smith Clements, MD

    Leading Family & Community Medicine at Northwestern with Deborah Smith Clements, MD

    Since coming to Northwestern in 2013, Deborah Smith Clements, MD, chair of the Department of Family & Community Medicine, has established three thriving family medicine residency programs and has been an advocate for improving the residency match process, health policy and social justice. She talks about her work, leading her department through COVID-19 and her…

  • Lewy Body Dementias and the Immune System with David Gate, PhD

    Lewy Body Dementias and the Immune System with David Gate, PhD

    David Gate, PhD, discusses his study on the detrimental role the immune system plays in Lewy body dementias. This disease encompasses two disorders: Parkinson’s disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. Actor Robin Williams famously passed away with dementia with Lewy bodies. NBA coach Jerry Sloan died of dementia with Lewy bodies as well. Gate’s…