Feinberg honored the MD Class of 2024 during the medical school’s 165th commencement ceremony held in the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier on May 13.
Faculty members and fourth-year medical students were recognized for academic and clinical excellence during Feinberg’s Honors Day, held on May 10 in the Hughes auditorium.
Northwestern postdoctoral scholar Rogan Grant has been selected as a 2024 Schmidt Science Fellow, a program that sponsors promising, emerging scientists with postdoctoral placement in internationally renowned labs and promoting an intersectional approach to addressing global challenges.
Abby Citterman, ’24 MPO, a recent graduate of Northwestern’s Master of Prosthetics & Orthotics program, was awarded the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists Women in O&P Research Award at their 50th annual meeting in Chicago.
Influential biochemist Craig M. Crews, PhD, who pioneered the pharmaceutical field of targeted protein degradation, delivered the second Kimberly Prize in Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Lecture to a full auditorium of Feinberg faculty, staff, fellows and students.
A digital anatomy learning tool developed by Kirsten Moisio, PT, PhD, professor of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, has been named a winner of the National Science Foundation VITAL Prize Challenge.
Four Feinberg faculty have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and three additional Feinberg faculty have been honored with the ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award.
Lauren Wakschlag, PhD, professor of Medical Social Sciences, Pediatrics and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been awarded the Paula H. Stern Award for Outstanding Women in Science and Medicine by the Northwestern Medical Women Faculty Organization.
Jeffrey Gordon, MD, a distinguished university professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who is often referred to as the “father of microbiome research,” is the recipient of the 2024 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University.
Mary Kwasny, ScD, professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Biostatistics, has received the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Founders Award, the highest award the organization bestows for distinguished service.