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Students’ Award-winning Proposal Takes Aim at Hate Crimes
Demonstrating the value of cross-campus collaboration, an interdisciplinary team of Georgetown students has won first place in a regional public health competition – edging out six other universities’
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GUMC Convocation Heralds ‘New Wave’ of Health Education
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) celebrated the accomplishments of faculty and students at its annual fall Convocation Nov. 12. This year’s theme, interprofessional health education, was ca
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Nobel Laureate Watson Reflects on Seminal Discovery
Renowned scientist James Watson, PhD, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize for having co-discovered the structure of DNA along with Francis Crick, PhD, visited Georgetown this week to reflect on the revolutio
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Long-standing D.C. Collaboration Grooms Future Cancer Experts
The University of the District of Columbia and Georgetown University Medical Center have a decade-long partnership to train the cancer specialists of the future. Ocla Kigen had once set her sights on
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Health Disparities: Exposing a Paradox in the Nation’s Capital
The nation’s capital is a paradox. The D.C. metropolitan area is home to four of the nation’s wealthiest counties, according to recent census data, and yet the District leads the country in chronic ki
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Anti-aging Gene Loss Possible Culprit In Elderly Blindness
Loss of an anti-aging gene triggers retinal degeneration in mice and may contribute to age-related macular degeneration, according to a team of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers.
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Taking a Summer Dive Into Research
It was to be the “last free summer of her life” — but Adrienne Bruce’s self-described “passion for hearts” took precedence over a summer of freedom. Bruce was one of 36 medical students who chose to
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Genetics Aside, a Family in Every Sense of the Term
Some of his 20 charges likely view him as a bit of a surrogate parent, others may see him as a mentor. But Kenneth Dretchen, PhD, would be happy to be known simply as the go-to guy to whom new medical
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Learning the Language of Medicine to Come
As Abhishek Pandey (M’14) recalls, it was as if, while studying in Spain, “you were told to go study in Russia for a year — and speak the language.” That’s how this fourth-year Georgetown University S
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Lessons from 1,000 Year-old Medicine
Physicians searching for state-of-the-art treatments for their patients reach for their smart phones, tablets and computers to search databases of recent clinical trials and evidence-based medicine. T
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