Northwestern bioelectronics pioneer John A. Rogers, PhD, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of science and one of the most prestigious academies in Europe.
Fourth-year medical students and faculty members were recognized for academic and clinical excellence during Feinberg’s Honors Day, held on May 16 in the Hughes Auditorium.
Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council honored Allen Heinemann, PhD, the recipient of the 2025 Mentor of the Year award at a virtual and in-person workshop on May 5.
More than 480 alumni and guests returned to Feinberg’s campus on May 1, 2 and 3 to reconnect with former classmates, reminisce about their medical school experiences, and learn about the medical school’s latest developments and achievements at this year’s Alumni Weekend celebration.
Esteemed molecular biologist Ron Evans, PhD, known for his groundbreaking discovery of the nuclear receptor superfamily, delivered the third Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Lecture to a crowded auditorium of Feinberg faculty, staff, fellows and students on April 30.
Ali Shilatifard, PhD, the Robert Francis Furchgott Professor and chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Six Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP), two of the oldest medical honor societies in the U.S.
Northwestern undergraduate students interested in pursuing careers in medicine recently participated in the NUDOCS program, an immersive experience designed to provide hands-on exposure to clinical and community healthcare settings.
Faculty, residents, trainees and students from Feinberg and beyond recently came together for Health Equity Week, a weeklong series of educational programming designed to expose the roots of healthcare inequities and actions to take to address them.
Debra E. Weese-Mayer, MD, the Beatrice Cummings Mayer Professor of Pediatric Autonomic Medicine at Feinberg and Chief of the Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, has been awarded the 2025 Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine.