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Partners in Research: Front-Row Participants in Discovery
On an apple-crisp fall morning, several men and women gathered at a campus conference center configured like a classroom. Soon, scientists take turns at the podium, show slides and dive into plain-sp
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Answering a Community’s Call
Lucile Adams-Campbell, Ph.D., is matter-of-fact when it comes to the cancer mortality rate in Washington, D.C. Not only is it unacceptable to have one of the highest mortality rates in the nation, but
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Georgetown University Medical Center Presents Top Honor to John Ruffin
Georgetown University Medical Center will confer its highest honor, the Cura Personalis Award, on John Ruffin, Ph.D., director the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The Cur
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Giving spirit links football, cancer research at Lombardi Gala
The professional football community lent a powerful voice to the fight against cancer at the 26th Annual Lombardi Gala, energizing the more than 850 supporters who gathered for the event. The Gala, he
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Local Middle School Students Get “Heady” Lessons
Earlier this month, more than 30,000 researchers from around the world gathered in New Orleans for the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). A vast majority attended to present or lear
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Finding a Voice After Stroke
Peter Turkeltaub, M.D., Ph.D., is clearly delighted and surprised by one of his recent studies on how the brain processes language. When Turkeltaub asked a group of study participants to press a butto
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Meet the Current Alumni Association President
After serving as chair of the Medical Alumni Board for five years, Mary Beth Connell (M’89) jumped headfirst into her new role as president of the Alumni Association in July 2012. A committed leader i
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Cancer Center Opens Community-based Office to Study Health Disparities
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has marked the opening of a new community-based office designed to research and reduce cancer disparities among minority and underserved communities in
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Tackling Stroke in the Nation’s Capital
On a fine day in 2007, Donnie Sisco decided to come home early from his job as a property caretaker on the Eastern Shore. He needed some r-and-r — the headache that hit him the hour before was growing
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Australian Nursing Students Study at NHS This Fall
Three nursing students from two universities in Australia are studying this semester at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. Edwina Turner and Stephanie Heard are undergraduates a
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