All Posts: GUMC Stories

• Capital Breast Care Center Event Commemorates Activist

  The staff of Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC) commemorated a breast cancer activist whose memory inspires their work at a recent ceremony.

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• New Federal Post for GUMC’s Top Regulatory Officer Melds Law, Nursing

  Georgetown University Medical Center’s chief regulatory affairs officer has been appointed to the advisory council of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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• Nicotine Researcher Honored for Contributions to Study of Addiction

  A Georgetown University Medical Center researcher who has spent three decades researching nicotine’s effects on the human brain has received a prestigious award honoring his contributions to the field.

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• Former FDA Chief Scientist Comes to GUMC to Launch Center

  Jesse L. Goodman, MD, MPH, former chief scientist for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and a renowned expert in infectious diseases, has joined Georgetown University Medical Center to head a new center.

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• Speed Grant Review Provides Researchers with Valuable Feedback

  Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital took part in a speed grant review session geared to making junior researchers’ proposals more competitive in a difficult funding climate.

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• Global Security Depends on Matching Wits With Emerging Disease

  Researchers face a “perpetual challenge” to stay ahead of the evolving infectious microbes they seek to eradicate, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a Georgetown symposium yesterday.

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• Transforming the Future of Medicine

  A strong case for a transformative, new look into the future of medicine emerged at the recent Georgetown School of Medicine Reunion entitled, “Georgetown University Medicine at the Leading Edge: Syst

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• GUMC Mini-Med School Begins February 28

  Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) announces the Spring 2012 Mini-Medical School Program, beginning Tuesday, February 28, 2012. In its fifteenth year, the Mini-Medical School follows the tra

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• GUMC Holiday Outreach

  During the holidays, GUMC community was busy helping those in need throughout the Washington DC area. From Georgetown University’s Sponsor a Family Program to the Share the Warmth drive, generosity, g

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• V. Craig Jordan: The Conversation with Nature

  V. Craig Jordan, O.B.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.Med.Sci., who is scientific director and vice chairman of oncology at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded the 2012 ASPET Good

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