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Georgetown Launches New Course in Regulatory Science
Georgetown University’s Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation, a joint effort between the university and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is offering its first graduate
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Victoria Shanmugam: Investigator receives $1.9M NIH Grant to Study Wound Healing
The National Institutes of Health has awarded an R01 grant in the amount of $1.9 million over five years to Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in support of Victoria Shanmugam, M.D., assistan
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GUMC Microbiologist Organizes Preeminent International Meeting on Hepatitis B
“Substantial advances” in hepatitis B research were presented at the 28th Annual International Meeting on the Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses, says John L. Casey, Ph.D., associate professor i
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Georgetown Lombardi Director Addresses Cancer Screening Challenges, Racial Disparities at Legislative Forum
It’s a simple enough premise: cancer screening saves lives. And yet, while this fact is not in dispute, it’s only when one scratches the surface of the screening issue that a variety of complicated sc
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5th Annual GUMC Convocation – Call for Award Nominations
It’s a fairly new tradition -- the Georgetown University Medical Center Convocation. Now in its 5th year, we begin preparing once again to celebrate academic prowess and to recognize unique and outsta
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Nurse Presents Research on Nursing, AIDS Pandemic
Ella Pritchard Curry, PhD, RN, ACRN, who has been a nurse for 22 years in the hospital’s Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, presented Sept. 19, discussing, “First Impressions: A Retr
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Marc D. Schwartz: Genetic Tests Guide Tough Treatment Decisions
As a student at the University of New York, Stony Brook, Marc D. Schwartz, Ph.D. envisioned a career as a psycho-therapist who occasionally dabbled in research. “What did I know? I was a 21-year-old k
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Study Examines Curriculum Infusion’s Impact on Care
Joan Burggraf Riley (NHS’76, G’97), MS, MSN, FNP-BC, FAAN, assistant professor of human science and nursing, and Edilma L. Yearwood, PhD, PMHCNS, BC, FAAN, associate professor of nursing, published, “
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Rosemary K. Sokas: Uniting Reality, Policy, Academe, and Safety
The career of Rosemary K. Sokas, MD, MOH, has taken a sort of hopscotch path: boots-on-the- ground scientific investigation among low-wage, high-risk worker communities to formulation of government po
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CRAs Add Strength to GUMC Staff
An effort started just over a year ago to increase the number of certified research administrators (CRA) at Georgetown University Medical Center continues to pay off. Three more GUMC staff members hav
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