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Founders’ Day Celebrates Past, Future of Medicine
A part of the 2012 Founders’ Day Convocation held August 24, the presentation of white coats to the Class of 2016 is a tradition marking students’ arrival as members of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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Scientists Discover One Way the Influenza Virus Disarms Host Cells
Northwestern researchers have revealed a new aspect of the interaction between the influenza virus and its host. Understanding how viruses disable the immune system can help scientists design therapeutics to preserve the immune response and keep people healthy.
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Students Teach Maternal-Child Health, Learn About Healthcare Challenges in Mexico
NU AID and Child Family Health International partnered to provide a global health immersion program for second- and fourth-year Feinberg students in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. During this year’s program, students focused on maternal-child health, partnering with local midwives to learn about the healthcare challenges that women in the community face.
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MSTP Student’s Research Highlighted by Trip to Asia, Publication
Medical Scientist Training Program student Jessica Queen turned a trip to Asia into a paper that appeared on the August cover of Infection and Immunity. For Queen, the opportunity to travel to a region of the world where cholera is endemic helped put into perspective the reasons she works so hard in the lab.
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Labarthe Receives American Heart Association’s Gold Heart Award
Darwin Labarthe, MD, PhD, MPH, professor in preventive medicine, was bestowed the American Heart Association 2012 Gold Heart Award, the highest honor the association gives in recognition of continued, distinguished service.
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New Students Welcomed with Introduction to the Profession Week
Introduction to the Profession week, held August 10 through August 15, is meant to familiarize the new class of medical students with the practical aspects of Feinberg and to the themes of professionalism and professional identity they will encounter throughout their medical education and career as physicians.
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Superager Brains Look, Act Decades Younger
A new Northwestern Medicine study takes a look at the brains of an elite group of people age 80 and older whose memories are as sharp as people 20 to 30 years younger than them.
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MPH Student Field Experiences in Chicago
This summer, Edson Carias, a first-year MD/MPH student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, helped the Howard Brown Health Center develop a social marketing campaign for sexually transmitted infection prevention
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Project Could Result in First Hand Transplant in Illinois, Protocol to Guide Others
A new research project being conducted by a collaborative team from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is working to determine who, if anyone, should receive a hand transplant.
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Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
The Doctor of Physical Therapy Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is not only the oldest physical therapy school in the nation, it also continues to rank among its best, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Brain Changes After a Stuffed Nose Protect the Sense of Smell
A new Northwestern Medicine study shows that after the human nose is experimentally blocked for one week, brain activity rapidly changes in olfactory brain regions. This change suggests the brain is compensating for the interruption of this vital sense. The brain activity returns to a normal pattern shortly after free breathing has been restored.
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Feinberg Researcher Discovers That Thinner Diabetics Face Higher Death Rate
American adults of a normal weight with new-onset diabetes die at a higher rate than overweight/obese adults with the same disease, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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Neil Kelleher Awarded W.M. Keck Foundation Grant for Study of Proteins
Neil Kelleher, the Walter and Mary E. Glass Professor of Molecular Biosciences, professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and director of the Proteomics Center of Excellence at Northwestern University, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation.
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Class of 2016 Student Profile
The 161 members of the Class of 2016 entered their first year of medical school in August 2012. Members of the class have a collective total of 78 undergraduate majors, ranging from biomedical engineering to political science, speak 26 different languages, and hail from 33 states and nine foreign countries.
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Summer Business Program for Doctoral STEM Students First of its Kind
Determined to get an edge in a difficult job market, 50 doctoral students in science and engineering at Northwestern University are honing their real-world management skills this summer in an eight-week leadership program drawing on coursework from the Kellogg School of Management core MBA curriculum.
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Frader Being Honored by AAP with Award for Ethical Excellence
Joel Frader, MD, professor in pediatrics and medical humanities and bioethics, is being honored this fall by the American Academy of Pediatrics with the 2012 William G. Bartholome Award for Ethical Excellence.
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Physician-Scientist Retreat Focuses on Student Research Projects
A two-day overnight retreat, August 4-5, involved a combination of scientific and social activities in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The retreat offers an opportunity for MSTP students to present their work, and hear presentations from MD/PhD graduates and outside physician-scientists.
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Study Explores Risky Use of Steroid for Sex Normalization in Fetuses
A new paper just published in the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry uses extensive Freedom of Information Act findings to detail an extremely troubling off-label medical intervention employed in the U.S. on pregnant women to intentionally engineer the development of their fetuses for sex normalization purposes.
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Feinberg Alumnus Dedicates Career to Helping to Eliminate Health Disparities
Charles Modlin, MD’87, MBA remembers spending time in the anatomy classroom as a freshman medical student and playing trumpet in the annual student comedy show IN VIVO, but it was his third-year clinical rotations in medical school that had the longest-lasting impact on his professional life, igniting his passion to help eliminate health disparities.
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Uncovering the Rules Governing Gene Transcription
A trio of groundbreaking publications from researchers in Northwestern University’s Physical Sciences-Oncology Center report important methodological advances that will enable a better understanding of how gene expression is regulated, both in normal cells and in cancer cells. This knowledge could lead to the development of more effective therapeutic agents to treat cancer patients.
