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‘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.…

February 2, 2024

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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…

February 2, 2024

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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…

February 2, 2024

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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…

January 26, 2024

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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…

January 26, 2024

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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…

January 18, 2024

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Georgetown Lombardi Faculty Members Aim To Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Rates by Focusing on Equity in Care

Kathryn Taylor, PhD, professor of oncology, believes she can have no greater impact on reducing the burden of cancer than by focusing on the harms of tobacco use. The work she co…

January 12, 2024

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The Brelidze Lab: A Story of Collaboration and Scientific Resilience

Tinatin “Tina” Brelidze, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, studies ion channels, membrane proteins involved in many. …

January 9, 2024

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Biomedical Graduate Education Students Make a Difference in the Community

Students who choose the Special Master’s Program in Physiology’s Georgetown Downtown Campus track participate in community service activities throughout the. …

December 22, 2023

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Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade

A new gift of $1.5 million to Georgetown University will sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training…

December 19, 2023