All Posts: GUMC Stories

• The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

  Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in Georgetown’s School of Medicine who studies the endocrine system and how hormones shape human physiology and behavior.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: brain, love, neuroscience

• A Partnership for Good

  A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony Fauci

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, bioethics, COVID-19, School of Medicine, School of Nursing

• What It Means To Be Well

  Learn about the many aspects of well-being, a signature focus for the School of Health’s research and academic missions.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tag: School of Health

• ‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice

  Meet five alumnae who developed a friendship at the School of Medicine and eventually wrote a book together.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: alumni, medical education, School of Medicine

• ‘We Messed Up’ Organizers Find the Upside of Failure

  Since it launched less than two years ago, the “We Messed Up” Initiative has brought together students and faculty to learn about resiliency and growing from failure.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: medical education, resiliency, School of Medicine, student experience

• School of Medicine Scholarship Recipient Dedicated to Serving Local Communities and Fighting Global Health Inequities

  For Amanda Wibben, MTS (M’26), the 2023-2024 Lawrence Dean Scholarship winner, cura personalis is about health care providers not only caring for their patients in their entirety, but also confronting their own privilege.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: scholarship, School of Medicine, student achievement, student experience

• Could a Georgetown Lab Finding Lead to New Treatment in Pancreatic Cancer?

  For the first time, new research by Georgetown scientists shows potential to make immunotherapy effective in pancreatic cancer by combining it with a drug that makes cancer cells more responsive to immunotherapy.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer, research

• Interfaith Blessing Highlights the Generosity of Anatomical Donors

  Before first-year medical students began their highly anticipated first day of anatomy lab, they paused for an interfaith blessing led by Father James Shea, S.J., Rabbi Daniel Schaefer and Imam Yahya Hendi.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: anatomical donor program, anatomy lab, medical education, School of Medicine, student experience

• Staying Hands-on in Hope: For the Future of Pediatric Cancer Research (and Maybe a New Car)

  The Hyundai Hands On Hope contest, generously sponsored by the Washington Area Hyundai Dealers, ran January 19 to 21 and featured healthy competition between Georgetown Lombardi and Children’s National.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Georgetown Lombardi, pediatric oncology, philanthropy

• Understanding Immunotherapy Resistance Leads to New Therapeutic Strategies — and Hope

  Samir Khleif, MD, an immunologist and professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi, is working to understand why some cancers become resistant to immunotherapy, and how that resistance can be overcome.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, immunotherapy, research