Tag: Faculty
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Wong Honored with NIH New Innovator Award
Yvette Wong, PhD, assistant professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, has received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, which supports early-career investigators conducting unconventional and innovative research projects in the biomedical, behavioral or social sciences.
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Stupp to Receive Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry
Samuel Stupp, PhD, the Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Chemistry, Medicine, and Biomedical Engineering, will receive the 2022 American Chemical Society Ralph F. Hirschmann Award in Peptide Chemistry.
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Surmeier Wins 2021 Tripartite Prize
D. James Surmeier, PhD, the chair and Nathan Smith Davis Professor of Neuroscience, has been named the winner of the 2021 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
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Remembering Lewis Landsberg, MD, Feinberg Dean and Chair of Medicine
Lewis Landsberg, MD, former dean of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine, whose thirty-year career at Northwestern transformed the medical school, passed away recently.
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Ryans Make Historic Gift Naming the Havey Institute for Global Health
Northwestern University Trustees and alumni Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan have made a historic gift to name and endow the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health.
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Northwestern Physician-Scientist Named to National Cancer Advisory Board
Northwestern Medicine physician-scientist Amy Heimberger, MD, has been named by President Biden to the National Cancer Advisory Board, which plays an important role in setting the course for the nation’s cancer research programs.
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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Mourns the Passing of Joanne C. Smith, MD, President & CEO
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago), today announced that AbilityLab’s president and CEO, Joanne C. Smith, MD, has died following treatment for cancer.
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Prominent Immunologist Named Chief of Allergy and Immunology
Stephanie Eisenbarth, MD, PhD, of Yale University, has been named chief of Feinberg’s Division of Allergy and Immunology in the Department of Medicine, and director of the newly formed Center for Human Immunobiology.
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Award Funds International Vascular Malformation Research
An international collaboration for which Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD, chair of Cell and Developmental Biology, serves as North American coordinator, has received a five-year, $7 million Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program award from the Leducq Foundation.
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Eminent Physician-Scientist Sachin Patel Named Chair of Psychiatry
Sachin Patel, MD, PhD, has been named chair and Lizzie Gilman Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and psychiatrist-in-chief at Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Norman and Ida Stone Institute of Psychiatry.
