Tag: Research
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Scientists Develop More Accurate Physical Activity Tracking App
A new algorithm developed by an interdisciplinary team at Northwestern can be used with a physical activity app to predict the location of a phone no matter where an individual carries it.
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Community Input Sought on Biomedical Research Building Designs
Three architectural firms have submitted designs for a new Biomedical Research Building for Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and the University is now seeking community input on the proposed designs.
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Hanauer to Join Gastroenterology and Hepatology
A distinguished physician-scientist and international leader in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, Stephen B. Hanauer, MD, will join the medical school on January 1, 2014, as the Clifford Joseph Barborka Professor of Medicine and the medical director of the Digestive Disease Center.
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Rosen Accepts Provost Position at City of Hope
The director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University helped usher in an era of international prominence during his nearly quarter-century at the helm.
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Bipolar Drugs Lose Effect during Pregnancy, Higher Doses Needed to Stay Well
Study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry by Crystal Clark, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shows the blood concentration of the commonly used drug lamotrigine decreases in pregnant women.
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Incurable Brain Cancer Gene Silenced
Delivered to mouse models, a novel therapeutic based on nanotechnology was found to turn off a gene critical in the development of glioblastomas, significantly increasing survival rates.
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Identifying Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer
Second-year medical student Chaitanya Medicherla explores the effects of immune cells on cancer development as part of his Area of Scholarly Concentration research project.
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Feinberg ALS Efforts Get Funding Boost
P. Hande Ozdinler, PhD, has been awarded three grants totaling more than $2.5 million. The funds will be used to increase her research efforts into the mechanisms behind amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
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Nanodiamonds Used to Improve Bone Growth
Paper published in the Journal of Dental Research shows that nanodiamonds could serve as non-invasive delivery vehicles of growth factors to bone.
