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New Grant Will Fund HIV Screening and Intervention for At-Risk Youth
A team of researchers from Lurie Children’s, Rush University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Chicago and the Howard Brown Health Center has received funding from the National Institutes of Health to integrate substance use screening and brief intervention into the traditional community-based HIV testing environment.
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Medical Education Day Celebrates Teaching and Scholarship
Feinberg faculty, staff and students participated in lectures, workshops and presentations during the 5th Annual Medical Education Day.
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Implant Detects Spreading Cancer Cells Early
Northwestern Medicine scientists helped develop an implantable device that detects early breast cancer metastatic cells, a method that may enable physicians to identify cancer spreading in patients while treatments are still viable.
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Probing Patient Beliefs About Painkiller Addiction
Emergency department patients have a range of beliefs and attitudes about the risk of becoming addicted to prescribed opioids, according to a recent study authored by a Feinberg medical student.
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Increased Activity in Older Brains May Point to New Avenues for Treating Memory Loss
Recordings of neurons in a little-studied part of the brain associated with memory show an unexpected increase in activity in older brains, a finding that may suggest a new target for therapies to combat memory loss.
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Clinical Trial Compares Lymphoma Regimens
A new study co-authored by a Northwestern Medicine scientist found no significant difference between two popular therapy regimens in patients with a subset of Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Low Dose Beta-Blockers As Effective As High Dose After a Heart Attack
In a new study, patients treated with one-fourth of the dose of beta-blockers tested in large clinical trials had a 20 to 25 percent increase in survival, indicating that dosing likely needs to be personalized for patients to get the best benefit.
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Feinberg Welcomes New Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Teresa Mastin, PhD, the new Director of Diversity and Inclusion, joins Feinberg to strengthen and expand diversity and inclusion efforts across the medical school.
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Evaluating Exercise to Reduce Cognitive Decline
Older adults who exercised regularly did not have better cognitive function than those who attended health education workshops, according to a study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine investigator Mary McDermott, MD, ’92 GME.
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Tracking the Immune Response to Flu Virus
A trail of messenger molecules left behind by general immune system cells called neutrophils helps virus-specific T-cells reach tissues infected by influenza, reports a new study published in Science.
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New Faculty to Study Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
Dan Foltz, ’02 PhD, Panagiotis Ntziachristos, PhD, and Marc Mendillo, PhD, have joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
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Driskill Students and Faculty Recognized for Contributions to Research and Teaching
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.
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4D Flow MRI Offers New Insights into Bicuspid Aortic Valves
A new imaging technique that allows for visualization of blood flow in real-time revealed that abnormal blood flow from the two-flap valve in bicuspid aortic valve disease can create weakness in the aorta.
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Research Will Determine Optimal Antidepressant Drug Doses During Pregnancy
Northwestern Medicine scientists received a five-year, $3.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to determine the optimal drug doses for treating pregnant women with depression.
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Feinberg Welcomes New PhD Students to Campus
First-year graduate students arrive on campus to pursue degrees from the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Medical Scientist Training Program and more.
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Targeting an Ion Channel to Treat Common Pediatric Brain Tumor
A study co-authored by Northwestern Medicine scientist Rintaro Hashizume, MD, PhD, identified the EAG2 potassium channel as a target for treating medulloblastoma.
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AAFP Recognizes Thomas for Excellence in Teaching
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.
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Exploring How Cells Forge Strong and Flexible Bonds
In a recent study, Northwestern Medicine scientists described a new process that explains how the adhesion between epithelial cells occurs.
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Bringing Feinberg’s Oncofertility Summer Academy to Sudan
Fatima Eldigair, a Sudanese-American senior at Lincoln Park High School, brought Feinberg’s Oncofertility Summer Academy to Sudan at the beginning of August to teach students there about cancer, reproductive biology and bioengineering.
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Grant Will Explore New Treatments for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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…
