
Scott Budinger, MD, has been appointed chief of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

Two Feinberg faculty members received Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Awards for projects exploring autism spectrum disorder and Crohn’s disease.

Lifang Hou, MD, PhD, chief of Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention in the Department of Preventive Medicine, has been named a member of a blue ribbon panel that will help inform the scientific direction of Vice President Joe Biden’s National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.

Nearly 400 students, staff, trainees and junior faculty presented abstracts at the annual research showcase.

Isaac Adewole, MBBS, adjunct professor of Medicine, has been named Nigeria’s minister of health.

Melina R. Kibbe, MD, ’03 GME, Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research and vice chair of Research in the Department of Surgery has been named the winner of the Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.

Northwestern Simulation in the Department of Medical Education invited guests to participate in hands-on demonstrations and a tour of their center at an open house on March 3.

Aryeh Routtenberg, PhD, a longtime professor of Physiology at Feinberg, died Feb. 27.

Melina Kibbe, MD, ’03 GME, Edward G. Elcock Professor of Surgical Research, will be chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Five Northwestern scientists have been inducted into The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s College of Fellows.