
Feinberg experienced a year of discovery and scientific achievement in 2025, from honors and awards to unprecedented research discoveries.

Rinad Beidas, PhD, the chair and Ralph Seal Paffenbarger professor of Medical Social Sciences, has been elected the next co-editor-in-chief of Implementation Science, the field’s flagship journal, effective January 1, 2026.

Northwestern students, faculty, staff and community partners shared and recognized global health research, education and outreach at the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health’s 14th annual Global Health Day on November 19.

Feinberg students, trainees, faculty and members from partner institutions shared research on interventions and policies aimed at advancing equitable healthcare on Oct. 14.

Joseph Bass, MD, PhD, the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine for his foundational work in expanding the field of circadian mechanisms in metabolic health and disease.

Yogesh Goyal, PhD, assistant professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, has been named a 2025-2028 Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation Grant Fellow, which recognizes early-stage biomedical investigators engaged in basic and translational research that has the potential to make fundamental advances in biomedical science.

Richard Smith, PhD, assistant professor of Pharmacology and of Pediatrics, has received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award, which supports early-career investigators conducting high-risk and innovative research in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences.

Feinberg students, staff, trainees and faculty celebrated scientific discoveries and presented their research posters and abstracts at Feinberg’s 19th annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day on Thursday, Sept. 11.

John A. Rogers, PhD, has won the Royal Society’s Bakerian Medal and Lecture, one of the Premier Awards given by the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.

Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI, associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, has been named the Gene Stollerman Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, effective October 2025.