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Physical Activity Helps Older Adults Maintain Mobility
A regular physical activity program reduced the amount of time older adults spent with a major mobility disability, according to recent research.
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Understanding Signaling Pathways in Brain Tumors
Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a signaling pathway that regulates the behavior of two subtypes of glioblastomas.
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Scientists Find New Path in Brain to Ease Depression
A new pathway in the brain can be manipulated to alleviate depression, offering a promising new target for developing a drug that could be effective in individuals for whom other antidepressants have failed.
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Medical Education Day Celebrates Outstanding Teaching and Learning
Feinberg faculty, students and staff gathered to celebrate and advance medical education through workshops, lectures and presentations at the 6th Annual Medical Education Day.
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New Leader of Public Health Named
Ronald Ackermann, MD, MPH, has been named senior associate dean for public health and director of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM), succeeding IPHAM’s inaugural leader, Rowland Chang, MD, MPH.
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Promising Biomaterial to Build Better Bones with 3-D Printing
A 3-D printable ink developed by Northwestern scientists produces synthetic bone implants with unique properties to induce bone regeneration.
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Krainc Receives Javits Award for Parkinson’s Research
Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor and chair of Neurology, has received the Javits Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
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New Consortium Will Capture How Environmental Exposures Impact Child Health
Northwestern University has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to help scientists across the country study how environmental factors influence health outcomes for children.
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Team Physician for Paralympic Soccer Team Shares Experience in Rio
Monica Rho, ’05 MD, ’09 GME, traveled to the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as head team physician for the U.S. Paralympic Men’s Soccer Team.
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Horiuchi Receives Grant for Breast Cancer Study
Dai Horiuchi, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology, has been awarded a $450,000 research grant from Susan G. Komen to explore a potential targeted therapy against triple-negative breast cancer.
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Defining a Key Protein’s Role in Autoimmune Diseases
Northwestern Medicine scientists continue to demonstrate that a protein called Hrd1 may be an important target for treating autoimmune diseases.
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Zoghbi Delivers Keynote Nemmers Prize Lecture
Huda Zoghbi, MD, recipient of the inaugural Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University, gave a presentation on her research journey studying the neurological disorder Rett syndrome.
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New Assistant Director of Student Affairs Focuses on Student Success
Robert Brannigan, ’92 MD, ’93 ’94 ’98 GME, professor of Urology, will work with medical education staff to address student wellness, career planning and mentorship.
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Leveraging Big Data to Improve Patient Care in Cardiology
Northwestern Medicine scientists utilized a data science approach to develop more efficient methodology that can be used to inform a wide variety of quality improvement strategies in clinical practices.
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RNA Test Helps Identify Bacterial Infections in Infants
Northwestern Medicine scientists evaluated whether an RNA biosignature could distinguish if infants 60 days or younger with fever had a serious bacterial infection.
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Stopping Diabetes in its Tracks
For the last decade, Ronald Ackermann, MD, MPH, has worked on implementing a method to halt diabetes that is both effective for patients and affordable for insurers. He and colleagues have focused on adapting an intervention called the Diabetes Prevention Program.
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On the Forefront of Regenerative Medicine
Northwestern’s biomaterials labs are developing the next generation of materials in medicine, called supramolecular biomaterials – molecules designed in a way to mimic cell structures and functions of biological signaling.
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Identifying Blood Cell Contribution to Inflammation After Seizures
Northwestern Medicine scientists co-authored a study that identified a blood cell not normally found in the healthy brain that can invade brain tissue after status epilepticus, a type of seizure, and contributes to inflammation.
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Driskill Graduate Program Honors Students and Faculty
At Driskill day, students, faculty members and alumni celebrated accomplishments and research occurring in the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences.
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One Year of Progress on the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center
The senior project manager for the the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center shares the current progress on the construction of the university’s largest single construction project to date.
