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Cancer Survivors’ Walk Draws 4,000 Approximately 4,000 cancer survivors, friends, family members, and others touched by cancer participated in the 10th Annual Cancer Survivors’ Celebration and Walk, which kicked off June 1 at 9 a.m. at Chicago’s Grant Park. The five-mile, lakefront walk was sponsored by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern[…]

Northwestern Remembers Reuben Feinberg “A straight-talking, unassuming, and generous man….who enjoyed life….who was committed to improving health care for the people of Chicago….who gave Northwestern a big boost.” These were among the many attributes describing Reuben Feinberg heard by friends, colleagues, and family members when they gathered May 19 in Thorne Auditorium on Northwestern University’s[…]

May 5, 2003 Foundation Gift Funds Virology Research Center CHICAGO— The Drucker Family Foundation has made a $5 million gift to Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine through the Midwest AIDS Foundation/Engle Fund to create the Fred and Norman A. Drucker Virology Research Laboratories at the medical school. The labs will occupy the entire 12th[…]

Graduates Urged to Be High Tech and High Touch Surrounded by family members and friends, 164 medical students celebrated their official entry into the medical profession at the Feinberg School’s 145th Graduation Convocation, held May 23 at Navy Pier’s Grand Ballroom. The event featured guest speaker Jordan J. Cohen, MD, president of the Association of[…]

Schweitzer Fellows Help the Underserved Just as the program’s namesake Dr. Albert Schweitzer helped needy people in Africa, the 28 health care students participating in the 2003–04 Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellows Program will help the underserved as they work with agencies providing health care to fragile populations. Among next year’s Schweitzer fellows are first-year Northwestern[…]

16th Century Meets the 21st on Vesalius Web Site A translation of Andreas Vesalius’ anatomy atlas, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) can now be viewed on the Web at vesalius.northwestern.edu/ . First published in 1543 and revised in 1555, the atlas “offers a detailed account of human anatomy and[…]

Alumni Weekend Slated for April 25-26 Nearly 400 Northwestern medical alumni and their guests will celebrate Alumni Weekend 2003, April 25–26, as well as two historic events: the 135th anniversary of the first meeting of the Medical Alumni Association and the medical school’s 100th alumni weekend. The annual reunion will feature informative lectures, campus and[…]

Dean’s Clinical Research Day Slated for May 8 The Feinberg School of Medicine will hold its first Dean’s Clinical Research Day on Thursday, May 8, from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. in Conference Room A of Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Feinberg Pavilion. Focusing on reproductive science, the program features Jean D. Wilson, MD, clinical professor of internal medicine[…]

April 17, 2003 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or atfellman@northwestern.edu Federal Grant Funds Reproductive Center EVANSTON, ILL.— Northwestern University has received $5.65 million over five years from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to establish the multidisciplinary Center for Reproductive Research (CRR) at Northwestern. The center seeks innovative answers to female[…]

Medical Students Named Research Scholars Two students at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have been selected for the 2003–04 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Medical Scholars Research Program at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Third-year student Maulik D. Majmudar of Germantown, Maryland, and second-year student Sima P. Patel of Diamond Bar,[…]

April 18, 2003 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or attlk@northwestern.edu Nanotechnology May Help Overcome Current Limitations of Gene Therapy CHICAGO— Scientists from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Argonne National Laboratory have created a hybrid “nanodevice” composed of a “scaffolding” of titanium oxide nanocrystals attached with snippets of DNA that may[…]

Public Invited to Free Lecture on Genetic Testing As part of its ongoing effort in public education, the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Genetic Medicine is holding a free lecture for the public, “Genetic Testing and Common Disease.” Learn how genetic testing will be applied to common diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s[…]

Northwestern’s Feinberg School Moves Up in Rankings In its annual survey of deans and senior faculty members at the nation’s 125 medical schools, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine 21st (up from 22nd last year) among research-intensive medical schools. Northwestern holds that ranking in a three-way tie with[…]

Accepted Students Take a “Second Look” With the busy interview season behind them and acceptance decisions made, the Feinberg School’s Office of Admissions is giving accepted students another chance to experience the environment of the medical school during Second Look Weekend April 10–12. This year 150 students representing 65 undergraduate are expected to participate; last[…]

April 15, 2003 Two Genes Required For Testis Formation CHICAGO— The sex of newborns is dictated by the X and Y chromosomes—girls are XX whereas boys are XY. However, new research from Northwestern University has shown that normal testis formation depends on two genes: the so-called male-determining Sry gene, found on the Y chromosome 10[…]

In Memoriam (Martin Brandfonbrener, Lee Gladstone, William Sullivan) Martin Brandfonbrener, MD, professor emeritius of medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine, died on February 21 in Chicago at age 75. Growing up in New York and showing brilliance in science, Dr. Brandfonbrener graduated from Stuyvesant High School and entered New York University at age 16.[…]

Linda Van Horn Named Editor-in-Chief of Nutrition Journal This March the American Dietetic Association (ADA) celebrates 30 years of promoting healthy eating via its National Nutrition Month®, an annual nutrition education and information campaign. So it seems fitting that the organization announced on March 10 the appointment of Linda V. Van Horn, PhD, RD, a[…]

Medical Students Find Their Matches Fourth-year medical students at the Feinberg School of Medicine learned on March 20 what residency programs they will enter this summer and celebrated the news with their classmates and families. The Northwestern students were part of 14,332 United States medical school seniors who participated in the annual Match Day, sponsored[…]

Research Grant Honors Ann Landers Seema Singhal, MD, professor of medicine at the Feinberg School, has received a two-year, $200,000 research award to investigate the genetic abnormalities associated with multiple myeloma. The Ann Landers Research Fund Award was presented to Dr. Singhal at a dinner in Chicago on March 4 by the Multiple Myeloma Research[…]