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Clements Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from IAFP
Deborah Smith Clements, MD, received the Illinois Academy of Family Physician’s Distinguished Service Award.
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Passion for Equity
New assistant dean for medical education Linda Suleiman, MD, weaves health equity into her curriculum goals and her own career as an orthopaedic surgeon.
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Lewy Body Dementia Exacerbated by Immune Response
T-cells respond to buildup of alpha-synuclein with a harmful auto-immune response, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in Science.
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Medical Student Helps Establish ‘Walk with a Future Doc’ Program
Second-year medical student Veronica Zheng is the co-founder of the “Walk with a Future Doc” program, which connects community members and Feinberg medical students to discuss important health topics while taking weekly walks in Chicago parks.
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Celebrating Medical Education
Lessons learned from the pandemic, as well as new ways of teaching medicine, were shared at Feinberg’s 11th annual Medical Education Day.
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Machine-learning Model Can Detect Rare Cardiomyopathy
A machine learning model can identify patients at risk of a rare cardiomyopathy, according to a recent study.
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Northwestern Scientists Explore Impacts of Genomic Variation in Disease in NIH Project
Northwestern is part of the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium, a $185 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) project that will explore the millions of genetic variants that cause disease around the world.
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The Long Haul
The growing number of patients suffering from long-term complications of COVID-19 has spurred the creation of Northwestern Medicine’s Comprehensive COVID-19 Center, which provides coordinated, multidisciplinary care.
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Skin Cancer Harbors Targetable Mutation
An especially deadly subtype of T-cell lymphoma is distinguished by unique mutations in the JAK-STAT pathway, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study.
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First-Year Student Reflects on First Weeks of Medical School
Already a few weeks into his medical school career, first-year medical student Max Wilberding said he is excited to get involved with the Feinberg community and take advantage of research opportunities.
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Wong Honored with NIH New Innovator Award
Yvette Wong, PhD, assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, has received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, which supports early-career investigators conducting unconventional and innovative research projects in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences.
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Stupp to Receive Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
Samuel Stupp, PhD, the Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
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Excitatory Neural Receptors Aid Development of Adult-born Neurons
A unique interaction between an excitatory neural receptor and a chloride transporter are critical for development of adult-born neurons in the dentate gyrus.
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Translational Science: Glioblastoma
Northwestern’s Brain Tumor SPORE — part of the Lurie Cancer Center — is now three years old, and the bench to bedside process is producing results.
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New PhD Students Arrive on Campus
Dozens of new PhD students from across the country and around the world have arrived on campus to begin their graduate programs at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Surmeier Wins 2021 Tripartite Prize
D. James Surmeier, PhD, the chair and Nathan Smith Davis Professor of Neuroscience, has been named the winner of the 2021 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
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Improving Immune Response Against Viral Infections and Disease
Blocking an inhibitory pathway within a subset of specialized T-cells may improve overall immune response against virally driven cancers, according to findings published in Nature.
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Revising Theory of Cancer-Induced Immune Suppression
Many cancers produce an enzyme called IDO that suppresses immune system activity, but the long-held hypothesis of how this mechanism operates requires revision, according to a Northwestern Medicine study.
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Salt Substitute Reduces Stroke and Heart Attacks
A salt substitute with less sodium reduced rates of stroke and heart attack in rural China, according to a recent trial.
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Remembering Lewis Landsberg, MD, Feinberg Dean and Chair of Medicine
Lewis Landsberg, MD, former dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, whose thirty-year career at Northwestern transformed the medical school, passed away recently.