Tag: Research
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Wisner Joining Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as Asher Professor
Katherine Wisner, MD, MS, an expert in the identification, characterization, and treatment of mood disorders in women, and a pioneer in psychiatric disorders associated with childbirth, is joining Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine on July 1 as the Asher Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
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Viral Photo Offers Evidence of Sun’s Aging Effect on Skin
A part of April’s images in clinical medicine section of the New England Journal of Medicine, the image of a 69-year-old truck driver illustrates the damaging powers of UVA rays.
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Quaggin to Lead Cardiovascular Research Institute, Division of Nephrology
Susan Quaggin, MD, an international authority in the field of nephrology, will join Feinberg as the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine, and serve as director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and chief of the Division of Nephrology.
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Professor’s Book Explores State of Hypochondria in America
We have become a nation of hypochondriacs, says a Northwestern Medicine professor in a new book that explores our ratcheting anxiety about our bodies and health.
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Northwestern Imaging Joins Elite Club
Northwestern University Nikon Imaging Center-Cell Imaging Facility is the first American imaging center to become a member of the EuroBioImaging Consortium.
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NUvention: Medical Innovation Provides Framework for Entrepreneurs
Since 2007, students in NUvention: Medical Innovation have pitched medical devices to company representatives after six months of coursework, research, and development. In that time, multiple groups from four Northwestern University schools have gone on to maintain a business profile outside of the classroom.
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Offspring of Older Fathers May Live Longer
A new Northwestern University study suggests that our bodies might increase investments to slow the pace of aging if our father and grandfather waited until they were older before having children.
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Study Finds Whites Sleep Better than Minorities
White people seem to sleep longer at night, have a better quality of sleep, and experience less daytime sleepiness than people identified as black, Hispanic, or Asian, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine.
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Lloyd-Jones Enthusiastic About Future with NUCATS Institute
On June 15, Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, will become the new director of the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences (NUCATS) Institute and senior associate dean for clinical and translational research at the medical school.
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Feinberg Scientists Celebrate 1,000th Entry into Protein Data Bank
As part of a multi-institutional, international consortium, investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine are using X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance to examine the atomic details of proteins from human pathogens.
