Search results for: “dermatology”
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Identifying a Novel Target for Cancer Immunotherapy
Targeting a molecule called B7-H4 may lead to the development of new therapies that boost the immune system’s ability to fight cancer, according to a review published in the journal Immunological Reviews.
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Medical Students Celebrate Match Day 2017
On Match Day, Feinberg’s fourth-year medical students gathered at Chicago’s Gino’s East to celebrate and learn where they will spend the next three to seven years training as residents.
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Medical Honor Society Welcomes Class of 2017 Inductees
Thirty-six new members of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine community were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society.
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Celebrating Sex Inclusion in Biomedical Research
Northwestern Medicine hosted a symposium for the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the National Institutes of Health’s landmark sex-inclusion policy.
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Feinberg Rises in NIH Rankings
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine rose to 16th place among U.S. medical schools in National Institutes of Health funding in 2016, rising two spots in the rankings reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research.
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Student Calls for Firearm Safety in Medical School Curricula
Second-year medical student Arianna Yanes recently published an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine about incorporating firearm safety into the medical school curricula.
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Investigating the Role of MicroRNAs in Regulating Stem Cells of the Eye
Northwestern Medicine scientists showed how a microRNA family regulates aspects of autophagy and macropinocytosis in the stem cell–enriched limbal epithelium of the eye.
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2016 Year in Review
“Truly, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is an institution on the rise,” said Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for Medical Affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean. See some of the medical school’s notable moments from 2016.
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Satchell, Shilatifard Elected AAAS Fellows
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and Karla Satchell, PhD, professor of Microbiology-Immunology, have been elected as 2016 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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Scientists Develop Soft, Microfluidic ‘Lab on the Skin’ for Sweat Analysis
A Northwestern research team has developed a first-of-its-kind flexible microfluidic device that adheres to the skin and measures the wearer’s sweat.
