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Tracking White Blood Cell Migration
In a new paper, graduate student Evan Weber showed that endothelial protein TRPC6 is the specific calcium channel that helps white blood cells migrate from blood vessels into inflamed tissues and organs.
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Scientists Find Mechanism That Controls Sleep-Wake Cycle
A recent study sheds new light on how an animal’s biological clock wakes it up in the morning and puts it to sleep at night.
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Cubs Physician Shares in Team’s Success
Stephen Gryzlo, MD, associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Feinberg and team orthopaedist for the Chicago Cubs, discusses sports medicine and the team’s focus on health.
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RNA Editing Technique Treats Severe Form of Muscular Dystrophy
An RNA editing technique called ‘exon skipping’ has shown preliminary success in treating a rare and severe form of muscular dystrophy that currently has no treatment.
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Bonow Named Founding Editor of JAMA Cardiology
Robert Bonow, MD, the Max and Lilly Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Cardiology, has been named editor-in-chief of JAMA Cardiology, a new journal in the JAMA Network that will debut in 2016.
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New Therapy Reduces Symptoms of Inherited Enzyme Deficiency
In a phase three clinical trial, a new enzyme replacement therapy resulted in a reduction in multiple disease-related symptoms in children and adults with lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.
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Understanding Cellular Interactions During Heart Repair
In a recent study, Shuang Zhang, a fourth year student in the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (DGP), shed light on a molecule that mediates cross-talk between cardiac cells and immune cells after injury.
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Coffee Associated With Colon Cancer Survival
A recent study shows that patients treated for colon cancer who regularly drank caffeinated coffee had lower rates of cancer recurrence and mortality.
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Poster Session Highlights Student Research
Medical students gathered to share their Area of Scholarly Concentration research projects with faculty and peers at a recent poster session.
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New Faculty Members Join Department of Medicine
New faculty members, Guillermo Oliver, PhD, and Beatriz Sosa-Pineda, PhD, joined the Department of Medicine and the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute.
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Faculty Receive Funding for Research with Commercialization Potential
The NUCATS Institute and the Innovation and New Ventures Office recently announced the recipients of funding to assist promising biomedical research and moving it into a self-supporting commercial pathway.
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New Chair of Urology Named
Prostate cancer physician-scientist Edward M. Schaeffer, MD, PhD, has been named chair of the departments of Urology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Uncovering How Herpes Viruses Invade the Nervous System
A new study demonstrates how herpes viruses switch between two invasive states to promote infection in the nervous system.
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Lesniak Named Chair of Neurological Surgery
Influential neurosurgical oncologist Maciej Lesniak, MD, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine as chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery, effective November 1.
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Grant Supports Research on Most Common Tumor in Women
A $7.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health supports a second phase of basic science research to identify novel targets for treating uterine fibroids.
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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.
