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GUMC Helps Spearhead Campus-wide Symposium On Ebola Crisis

Georgetown hosted an interdisciplinary symposium on the rapidly growing Ebola epidemic in West Africa, underscoring its ability to address multiple dimensions of the crisis,…

September 25, 2014

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AAMC Bestows National Leadership Development Award on GWIM

Just in time to help mark its 20th anniversary, Georgetown Women in Medicine has received a high national honor from the Association of American Medical.…

September 24, 2014

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Brain Structure of Kidney Donors May Make Them More Altruistic

People who donate kidneys to strangers have significantly different brain structures than those who don’.…

September 15, 2014

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Endowment Provides Vital Research Lifeline for Neuroscience Investigator

In the research world, there is a familiar Catch-22. Bright ideas require research funding to generate preliminary data, but it is notoriously difficult for a researcher to…

September 12, 2014

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Georgetown Medical Student Receives Prestigious AMA Foundation Honor

A Georgetown University School of Medicine student is among 21 fourth-year medical students nationwide to receive a “Physicians of Tomorrow” Award from the American…

September 12, 2014

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Professor Recognized as Leader in Neurorehabilitation Research

A Georgetown University Medical Center professor has been selected to receive the Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician-Scientist Award from the American Society of…

September 11, 2014

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Georgetown Lombardi Secures Prestigious NCI Endorsement

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has received the federal government’s most powerful endorsement for its work in cancer prevention, research and.…

September 9, 2014

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International Meeting to Promote Systems and Complexity in Medicine

Georgetown is hosting a pioneering international conference in November that aims to promote a new way to practice medicine—combining the ethos of early medical wisdom…

August 28, 2014

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Professor Honored for Contributions to Scleroderma Research, Education

A Georgetown University Medical Center professor recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Scleroderma Foundation during its National Patient Education Conference…

August 25, 2014

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As Neuroscience Applications Expand, Neuroethics Keeps Pace

Neuroscience, neurolaw, neuromarketing, neuroweapons. What do all these terms have in?…

August 15, 2014