Tag: Research
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Clements to Chair Family and Community Medicine
Deborah Clements, MD, nationally recognized for her contributions to education policy, will join Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on May 1 as professor and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.
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Collaborative Studies Examine Effect of Hyperglycemia Following Transplant
Amisha Wallia, MD, MS, GME’08, an instructor in endocrinology, metabolism, and molecular medicine, pursued her clinical research on glycemic control in transplant populations from residency, through a fellowship, all the way to a faculty position. She attributes her early experience conducting studies as the inspiration for her decision to become a physician-scientist.
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International Study Examines Long-term Effect of Gestational Diabetes on Children
A Northwestern Medicine® study aims to compare the long-term effects of a pregnant woman’s blood sugar levels on her child to the effects of her body weight. The study includes participants from around the world and will also determine a mother’s long-term risk for developing diabetes mellitus.
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Acclaimed Surgical Couple Coming to Feinberg
Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD, an internationally-renowned neurosurgeon specializing in complex tumors of the brain and spine, will join the medical school on July 1 as the Michael J. Marchese Professor and chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery. His wife, Charlotte Shum, MD, a hand and upper extremity specialist, has been named associate professor…
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Bone Marrow Cells Used in Bladder Regeneration
Arun K. Sharma, PhD, research assistant professor in urology, has published an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences regarding a unique approach to bladder regeneration that capitalizes on the potential of two distinct cell populations harvested from a patient’s healthy bone marrow.
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Update: Electronic Medical Records Project Tracks Genetic Information
The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics Network, or eMERGE, is one of the Center for Genetic Medicine’s research projects, launched nationally in 2007 with funding from the National Institutes of Health. Now in its second phase, the project is tracking patient and physician actions and responses with genetic information through the electronic medical records.
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Exploring How Skin Cells Communicate
Growing 3D human skin models, researchers are discovering what messaging occurs in healthy skin to try to understand what goes wrong in disease states.
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Graduate Student Takes Cancer Research from Bench to Bedside
Meghan Bliss-Moreau, a fourth-year PhD candidate in Northwestern University’s Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences, develops therapeutics for cancer in the lab of Steven Rosen.
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Mauvais-Jarvis Contributes Diabetes Expertise to Major Study on Obesity
Published in Nature Medicine, investigators have combined two hormones that hold the potential for a new treatment option.
