Tag: Students
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Revealing a Neurotransmitter’s Role in Critical Brain Region
Northwestern Medicine scientists discovered that nitric oxide is part of a new form of cell learning in the striatum, the region of the brain involved in the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and schizophrenia.
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Growing Diversity In Doctoral Programs
A new Northwestern Medicine study addresses challenges at the PhD level to boost the persistence of underrepresented minority and female students toward academic careers.
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Student Explores Encephalitis in the Newborn Brain
Douglas Wilcox, a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program, discovered the herpes simplex virus targets a host cell protein to cause severe disease and encephalitis in newborns.
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Learning to Implement Public Health Policy from Community Leaders
As part of their Health and Society coursework, medical students met with policy leaders to learn how implementing better health policies can improve the overall health of communities.
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Student Sketch Comedy Show Benefits Chicago Youth Programs
This year’s annual student sketch comedy show In Vivo parodied the late-night comedy series Saturday Night Live to raise funds for Chicago Youth Programs.
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PhD Student Investigates Gene Regulation in Lung Disease
Lindsay Stolzenburg, a PhD student in the Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences, studies the role of microRNAs to identify target genes that may be involved in cystic fibrosis.
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Student Group Supports LGBT Community
Student group Queers and Allies recently celebrated the release of the medical school’s first annual OutList, one of many programs and resources it facilitates to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals at Feinberg and to improve health within the LGBT community.
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Tracking White Blood Cell Migration
In a new paper, graduate student Evan Weber showed that endothelial protein TRPC6 is the specific calcium channel that helps white blood cells migrate from blood vessels into inflamed tissues and organs.
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Understanding Cellular Interactions During Heart Repair
In a recent study, Shuang Zhang, a fourth year student in the Driskill Graduate Program in the Life Sciences (DGP), shed light on a molecule that mediates cross-talk between cardiac cells and immune cells after injury.
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Poster Session Highlights Student Research
Medical students gathered to share their Area of Scholarly Concentration research projects with faculty and peers at a recent poster session.
