Tag: Education

October 28, 2002 Broadcast Media: Tamara Kerrill Field at (847) 491-4888 or at tlk@northwestern.edu   Culture Bus Serves Alzheimer’s Patients CHICAGO— A unique new program developed by the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University and the Council for Jewish Elderly enables persons with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease to participate in innovative activities involving…

Medical Students to Present Summer Research Results All members of the Northwestern community are invited to the Feinberg School’s annual Medical Student Research Day on Thursday, October 31. Medical students will present posters from their summer research projects. These hands-on research experiences provide students with a taste of what it would be like to conduct…

October 25, 2002 Northwestern Launches Gene Banking Project CHICAGO— The Center for Genetic Medicine at Northwestern University has launched a major gene banking project that will use information from the human genome sequence to unravel the genetic cause of many diseases and eventually help scientists develop new tests, determine which patients will respond best to…

October 25, 2002 Smoking May Make Lymphoma More Lethal CHICAGO— A Northwestern University investigator has hypothesized that smoking may play a dual role in the development of a cancer of the lymph glands called follicular lymphoma, first causing it to develop and then transforming it into diffuse large cell lymphoma, an aggressive cancer generally associated…

October 14, 2002 Eldercare Organizations Receive Boost from Program CHICAGO— The Buehler Center on Aging at Northwestern University has launched a program to assist in building the research capacity of community-based organizations that serve and care for the elderly. The program, called ASSERT (Aging Services Support for Evaluation and Research Training), is funded by a…

Art in the Atrium Highlights School Talent Works by the Feinberg School’s faculty, staff, and students, as well as staff members of the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, will be featured October 15–17 during the 11th Annual Art in the Atrium, sponsored by the school’s Staff Relations Committee. Held in the Method Atrium, 300 East Superior…

Hollister Lecture to Focus on How Fight on Bioterrorism May Affect Individual Rights The 9/11 attacks and Anthrax scares that followed changed the world in every way including U.S. lawmakers’ and public health officials’ responses to bioterrorism. Furthering the dialog on how steps to fight bioterrorism may affect individuals and society as a whole, the…

October 1, 2002 Contact: Megan Fellman at (847) 491-3115 or at fellman@northwestern.edu Key Discovery in Neurodegenerative Diseases EVANSTON, ILL.— Northwestern University scientists have made a key molecular discovery that has implications for a wide range of diseases characterized by the loss of nerve function, including Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s diseases, cystic fibrosis, and…

October 1, 2002 New Protease Inhibitor Suppresses HIV Levels SAN DIEGO— A study from The Feinberg School of Medicine has shown that the protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra®) suppressed HIV to undetectable levels and was well tolerated through four years of treatment in patients who had not previously received antiretroviral therapy. To date in the Kaletra®…

September 30, 2002 Albrecht-Buehler Elected to European Academy CHICAGO— Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, Robert Laughlin Rea Professor of Anatomy and professor of cell and molecular biology at The Feinberg School of Medicine, has been elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Dr. Albrecht-Buehler was elected to the academy based on his “outstanding and lasting contribution…