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  • Global Security Depends on Matching Wits With Emerging Disease

    Researchers face a “perpetual challenge” to stay ahead of the evolving infectious microbes they seek to eradicate, said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a Georgetown symposium yesterday.

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  • Transforming the Future of Medicine

    A strong case for a transformative, new look into the future of medicine emerged at the recent Georgetown School of Medicine Reunion entitled, “Georgetown University Medicine at the Leading Edge: Syst

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  • GUMC Mini-Med School Begins February 28

    Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) announces the Spring 2012 Mini-Medical School Program, beginning Tuesday, February 28, 2012. In its fifteenth year, the Mini-Medical School follows the tra

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  • GUMC Holiday Outreach

    During the holidays, GUMC community was busy helping those in need throughout the Washington DC area. From Georgetown University’s Sponsor a Family Program to the Share the Warmth drive, generosity, g

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  • V. Craig Jordan: The Conversation with Nature

    V. Craig Jordan, O.B.E., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.Med.Sci., who is scientific director and vice chairman of oncology at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been awarded the 2012 ASPET Good

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  • Breaking the Most Toxic Addiction of All

    It’s a New Year, and time to get serious about the resolutions — great and small — that people often make at this time to correct a behavior. But when it comes to stopping smoking, many just can’t get

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  • Inaugural Sarah Stewart Lecture Series Continues

    The next lecture in this year’s Sarah Stewart Student Research Lecture Series will be given by Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Ph.D., professor of oncology and associate dean for community health and outrea

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  • Protecting Innovation, One Idea at a Time

    The Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) at Georgetown University kicks off the semester with a one-day program providing the university community, including clinicians and scientific faculty

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  • Nursing Students to Wear Red

    ABC’s local television affiliate, WJLA Channel 7, reporter Jennifer Donelan will return to St. Mary’s Hall as the keynote speaker at the National Wear Red Day presentation on Friday, February 3, at 11

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  • Preventing Birth Defects

    As the nation commemorates National Birth Defects Awareness Month in January, Georgetown University Medical Center’s efforts in researching the causes of birth defects and educating expectant mothers

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