Tag: Cancer
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Transforming Cancer Care in Bolivia
A delegation from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, including Northwestern oncology leaders, recently met with health leaders in Bolivia to begin generating cancer treatment recommendations to fit the country’s unique needs.
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Newly Discovered Protein Explains Leukemia’s Treatment Resistance
Northwestern scientists recently identified a new protein complex that is upregulated in acute myeloid leukemia, potentially explaining why current therapies are often ineffective.
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Celebrating Scientific Discovery at Research Day 2019
More than 450 scientists, trainees, students and faculty presented posters and abstracts at Feinberg’s 15th Annual Lewis Landsberg Research day — the largest celebration of scientific investigation at Feinberg to date.
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Green Wins 2019 Tripartite Prize
Kathleen Green, PhD, the Joseph L. Mayberry, Sr., Professor of Pathology and Toxicology and professor of Dermatology, has been named the winner for the 2019 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
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Uncovering Mechanisms of Cellular Growth and Division
A new study has uncovered a key mechanism underlying the control of a co-factor that is essential for all cells to grow and divide, and which may also play a key role in cancer cell growth.
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Ardehali Elected President of ASCI
Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, was elected president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, an honor society of physician-scientists founded in 1908.
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Tumor Mutations Predict Response to Immunotherapy
A recent Northwestern Medicine study found that patients with glioblastoma responded better or worse to immunotherapy depending on the presence of certain mutations in their tumors.
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Bharat Named Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Ankit Bharat, MBBS, the Harold L. & Margaret N. Method Research Professor of Surgery, has been named chief of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery.
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Using Serine to Control Inflammation
Northwestern Medicine investigators discovered a method to modulate levels of a protein that is known to drive inflammation, by manipulating levels of an amino acid known as serine.
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Solving Resistance to Emerging Cancer Immunotherapy
According to a recent study, Northwestern scientists have pinpointed how an ectoenzyme called CD73 undermines the effectiveness of an emerging cancer therapy.
