Students, fellows, faculty and guests took part in a mini-symposium that featured two panels discussions, a scientific poster session and networking reception as part of the medical school’s World AIDS Day commemoration.
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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.
New study is the first to show that the tongue-controlled system works faster and equally as accurately as the more common sip-and-puff wheelchairs.
Second-year medical student Tiffany Sun sought answers to the progression of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, and response to treatments. This research project is part of the Area of Scholarly Concentration, a part of the new curriculum.
A Northwestern University faculty member since 1955, Laszlo Lorand, PhD, is credited with promoting cross-campus collaboration between Evanston and the medical school, while making groundbreaking discoveries in the field of blood coagulation.
Within the United States, the majority of retinoblastoma patients are diagnosed before their second birthday, and many lose their sight due to this disease. In developing nations, advanced retinoblastoma is an even greater clinical challenge and the mortality rate is as high as 70 percent.
New research published by Kristin Swanson, PhD, in PLOS ONE highlights the use of a biomathematical model and optimization algorithm to decrease the amount of radiation received by normal tissue and to increase its impact on brain tumors.
Sharon A. Blattner, MEd, PA-C, director of clinical education for the Physician Assistant Program, received a teaching award at the 2013 Physician Assistant Education Association Annual Education Forum.
Research findings from the lab of Xiaorong Liu, PhD, show how visual experiences and proper developmental timing shape neural circuits during a critical period in early life.
Alumnus Andrew Eisen, HPME ’94, state assemblyman, pediatrician, and an associate dean, attributes his career in public policy and medical education to his experiences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
In a recent paper published in Nature Immunology, Jing Liu, PhD, assistant professor of medicine-pulmonary, explains the relationship between Miz1 and inflammation.
Annual event is a key component of the education and outreach activities of Northwestern’s Center for Molecular Innovation and Drug Discovery. The symposium featured a keynote address and scientific poster presentations by scientists working on drug discovery projects across a range of disease areas.
The guidelines – released from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association – will help doctors better identify which patients may benefit from lifestyle changes, drug therapy, or both to help prevent future cardiovascular disease-related events.
New national guidelines change the focus from aiming strictly at reducing bad cholesterol to a more personalized approach.
Northwestern Medicine® scientists have successfully tested a nontoxic therapy that suppresses Lupus in blood samples of people with the autoimmune disease. This is a positive step toward one day developing a vaccine-like therapy that could keep Lupus in remission in the human body without the use of toxic drugs.
Scientists at Northwestern are working to develop the healthcare infrastructure in Nigeria, a nation where an estimated 3 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
A new algorithm developed by an interdisciplinary team at Northwestern can be used with a physical activity app to predict the location of a phone no matter where an individual carries it.
A distinguished physician-scientist and international leader in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, will join the medical school on January 1, 2014, as the Clifford Joseph Barborka Professor of Medicine and the medical director of the Digestive Disease Center.
Three architectural firms have submitted designs for a new Biomedical Research Building for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the University is now seeking community input on the proposed designs.
The director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University helped usher in an era of international prominence during his nearly quarter-century at the helm.
Study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Crystal Clark, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shows the blood concentration of the commonly used drug lamotrigine decreases in pregnant women.
Delivered to mouse models, a novel therapeutic based on nanotechnology was found to turn off a gene critical in the development of glioblastomas, significantly increasing survival rates.
Second-year medical student Chaitanya Medicherla explores the effects of immune cells on cancer development as part of his Area of Scholarly Concentration research project.
P. Hande Ozdinler, PhD, has been awarded three grants totaling more than $2.5 million. The funds will be used to increase her research efforts into the mechanisms behind amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Professor Paul Greenberger, MD, was recognized for the impact he has made in the field of allergy and immunology.
Paper published in the Journal of Dental Research shows that nanodiamonds could serve as non-invasive delivery vehicles of growth factors to bone.
A group of medical students spent a month volunteering in urban and rural clinics and learning about public health in India.
Research by Seth Corey, MD, MPH, professor in pediatrics-hematology, oncology, and stem cell transplantation and cell and molecular biology, was recently published.
Annual events hosted by the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society showcase research and educational activities related to aging, the terminally ill, and other vulnerable populations.
Jennifer Heller, a fifth-year PhD candidate, uses animal models of colitis to better understand how the adaptive immune system becomes dysregulated.