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Giordano to Serve on Committee Advising HHS Secretary on Human Research Protections
James Giordano, PhD, a Georgetown bioethics expert, was recently appointed to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee charged with protecting human research subjects.
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Faith Organizations Gather in Rome to Discuss Ways to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
A Georgetown co-sponsored workshop examining ways faith-based organizations might address the growing global health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can help “bring God’s healing to a world so much in need.”
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Doctoral Student to Use Fellowship for Brain Iron Deficiency Research
Erika Raven (G’17), a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program for Neuroscience (IPN), has been selected as the 2017 Marshall Sherfield Fellow for postdoctoral work in the United Kingdom.
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Researchers Design Innovative System to Universally Catalogue Cancer Gene Variants
Subha Madhavan, PhD, and her colleagues have developed a standard way for researchers everywhere to describe and catalog the gene mutations found in cancer biopsies. They also recently published a paper online in Genome Medicine offering ideas about how to fix this data streamlining issue, including a list of 18 key data elements.
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New Marshall Scholar Plans to Research Brain Cancer, New Therapies
Recent Georgetown graduate Seamus Caragher (C’16) has been named a 2017 Marshall Scholar and plans to use his scholarship to pursue one-year master’s degrees in cancer sciences and technology policy in the United Kingdom.
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Georgetown Professor’s Debut Book Among the “Best of” 2016
Georgetown professor Timothy Jorgensen, PhD, MPH, described as “a scientist with a knack for narrative storytelling” now finds his first book, which aims to dispel the myths and mysteries of radiation, among the top reads for 2016.
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Identifying the Unmet Needs of Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
More than 400 health professionals, patients and advocates attended the Seventh Annual Ruesch Center Symposium, titled “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer,” in person at the Georgetown Hotel and Conference Center or via a live webcast, on December 3.
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Professor Appointed to President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
As a member of the committee, Tawara D. Goode, assistant professor in the department of pediatrics, will advise the president on ways to support the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in community life.
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Guinevere Eden Honored by International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) awarded GUMC’s Guinevere Eden, D. Phil., with its Norman Geschwind Award – an honor recognizing her outstanding research in the neural basis of dyslexia and how the brain changes following intervention.
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Searching for Ancient Life on the Bottom of the World
David Goerlitz, MS, is on his way to the Antarctic as part of a small Georgetown team led by Sarah Stewart-Johnson, PhD, assistant professor of planetary science in Georgetown’s department of biology and Science, Technology and International Affairs program. Their team will be the first to use next-generation sequencing technology in situ on the seventh continent to extract genetic information from ancient bacteria.
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