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Alums Enjoy Their Visit “Home” More than 500 medical school alumni returned to campus this past weekend to renew old friendships, make some new ones, and reconnect with their alma mater. Among the 35 events scheduled during the weekend, highlights included tours of the new Prentice Women’s Hospital and the NBC5-TV studios, as well as[…]

Public Invited to Free Alzheimer’s Program May 8 CHICAGO — The public is invited to attend a free Alzheimer’s Day program Thursday, May 8, at which they’ll hear about the latest research and treatments, and have the opportunity to talk to researchers and clinicians from the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center of Northwestern University’s[…]

Guggenheim Fellowship Awarded to Alice Dreger, PhD Alice D. Dreger, PhD, associate professor, Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, has been awarded a fellowship in support of her work in the history of medicine by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded for outstanding success and extraordinary promise for continued accomplishment.” Dr. Dreger’s[…]

Flanked by Dean Jameson (left) and Dr. Chisholm are the research poster presentation award winners (from left) Drs. Rongxue Wu (third place, basic sciences), Kazunari Nohara (first-place tie, women’s health), Min Cheng (second place, basic science), Milan Joksimovic (first place, basic science), Jacqueline S. Jeruss (first-place tie, women’s health), Robert J. McCarthy, (second place, clinical)[…]

Medical Students Find Rewards in Mentoring High School Girls Fourteen Feinberg School of Medicine students recently found that giving up their rare time off to mentor young women considering careers in medicine really had nothing to do with giving up at all. Turns out, they were the ones on the receiving end. The medical students[…]

Anita Chase from the deans administration plays an original tune, “Ride.” She performs around town as a solo artist and as part of the rock group ½ Mad Poet. Research assistant professor of cell and molecular biology Gabriella Sekerkova shows off some of her work to an appreciative Claudia Moreno, who earlier demonstrated her own[…]

Christopher S. Takehana, a fourth-year student and Neel K. Naik, a second year student, are two of the recipients of the RSNA grants. Students Receive Prestigious Grants to Study Radiology Four Feinberg School students recently received research grants from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) that gave them a chance to probe the field[…]

Michael F. Schafer, MD, Honored with Tipton Leadership Award “Being selected for this award means more to me than I can put into words,” said Michael F. Schafer, MD, recipient of the 2008 Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s William W. Tipton Jr., MD Leadership Award. “Bill Tipton and I were interns together and became very[…]

Contact: Marla Paul at (312) 503-8928 or atmarla-paul@northwestern.edu Women Invited to Join New Health Registry to Advance Research Women throughout the state are invited to help advance research in women’s health by joining the new Illinois Women’s Health Registry. The registry, created by the Institute for Women’s Health Research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of[…]

Calcific Aortic Stenosis: Bringing Discoveries from the Lab to the Clinic In its seminar series supporting translational research efforts at Northwestern, the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science (NUCATS) Institute recently featured Nalini Rajamannan, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology. Her talk, “Calcific Aortic Stenosis: A Disease Ready for Primetime,” traced[…]

Opening Doors tells the stories of four pioneering African American surgeons and educators who exemplify excellence in their fields and believe in continuing the journey of excellence through the education and mentoring of younger physicians and surgeons. Dr. Pugh modestly expressed disbelief at being included in the exhibit with such “larger than life” surgeon/educator pioneers.[…]

Stem Cell Research: The Promise and Perils Listen to Dr. Kessler Stem cell research has garnered a great deal of hype and controversy. Hear from one of the leading experts in the field, John A. Kessler, MD, chair of the neurology department at the Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Kessler is the Davee Professor of[…]

Senyei-Supported Study Leads to Progress in Parkinson’s Disease Treatment In 2006, the newly established Drew Senyei, MD, Translational Research Awards supported four projects. The awards were made possible by a $1 million gift from Dr. Senyei, a 1979 medical school alumnus and Northwestern University Board of Trustees member, and exemplify Northwestern University’s commitment to “bench[…]

Grant Support in 2007 Advances Lurie Cancer Center Goals Fueled by substantial grant support in 2007, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University sustains its status as a premier resource for patients seeking state-of-the-art care. Notable among recent grant awards was the receipt of a $25.6 million five-year renewal of a Cancer[…]

NUgene Grant Furthers Disease-Specific Genetic Research A $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will carry forward the work of the NUgene project in examining the role of genetics in common diseases, while creating research linkages both between Northwestern and other institutions and among disciplines within the Feinberg School of Medicine. The grant[…]