The third-annual event allowed students, postdoctoral fellows, and young tenure-track faculty from across the disciplines of engineering and neuroscience to interact with peers and mentors from both campuses.
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In honor of the fifth anniversary of the Minds Matter Benefit, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has given special recognition to the Northwestern Brain Tumor Institute.
The center, led by Leena Sharma, MD, has expanded to include a strengthening program in osteoarthritis research and a focus on health care utilization, with particular emphasis on underserved minorities.
Simple tests that measure the ability to recognize individuals such as Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, or Oprah Winfrey may help doctors identify early dementia in those 40 to 65 years of age, according to new Northwestern Medicine® research.
Xin “Lucy” Liu, MD, PhD, has published a paper in Pediatrics that points toward a connection between a toddler’s ability to overcome the effects of low vitamin D levels at birth with later food sensitization and allergy.
Published in Human Molecular Genetics, research from the lab of Christine DiDonato, PhD, has helped bring a potential therapy for spinal muscular atrophy into clinical trial.
Second-year medical student Crystal Doan’s interest in immigrant health disparities led her to work on a community-based research project. She provided support for heart disease interventions in the South Asian population in the Devon neighborhood of Chicago.
Northwestern Medicine’s® Mary Mulcahy, MD, and Chicago journalist Randi Belisomo have launched a new website/portal that they intend to be the premier provider of information and support for everyone involved in end-of-life decisions.
Feinberg scientist Lee Lindquist, MD, has received a research award to develop a web-based planning tool that will help seniors create a blueprint for their end-of-life care.
Mary McDermott, MD, professor in general internal medicine and geriatrics and preventive medicine, recently published a study in JAMA that may change clinical guidelines for patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD).