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Strides of Support – the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer
It’s time to lace up your sneakers and join this year’s Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The Georgetown Lombardi-Capital Breast Care Center Team is looking to increase…
February 19, 2014
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Help the Kids on St. Baldrick's Day
On Friday afternoon, March 9 from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Sellinger Lounge at the Leavey Center, Georgetown medical students, staff, faculty, family and friends will join forces…
February 19, 2014
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Hans Schöler Talks About Pluripotency
Until recently, researchers worked mainly with two types of stem cells —embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Following a scientific breakthrough in 2006, a third…
February 19, 2014
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Prosper N’Gouemo: Tracing the Pathways to Seizures
“I am interested in the basic mechanisms of epilepsy, and the neurobiology of alcohol withdrawal seizures,” says Prosper N’Gouemo, Ph.D., assistant professor…
February 19, 2014
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Top Cancer Minds of Tomorrow Spotlighted
Hopeful students gathered in the top floors of the New Research Building at the Medical Center on March 1, 2012 as they eagerly the judges to view their scientific findings in…
February 19, 2014
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More CRAs Strengthen GUMC Staff
A year ago under the sponsorship of the dean for research and the executive vice president, the Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) began a Certified Research…
February 19, 2014
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Cell Biologist Receives Grant to Study Eye Disease
A cell biologist and Georgetown faculty member recently received grant funding for his research on pigmentary glaucoma. Alex Theos, Ph.D., assistant professor of human science at…
February 19, 2014
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Match Day Madness for Georgetown University Medical Students
Move over March Madness, watch out St. Patrick’s Day, March signifies another celebration that students eagerly anticipate, and that’s Match Day! This seminal, …
February 19, 2014
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This Is Your Brain Having Fun
Karen Gale, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Pharmacology at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC), asked the visiting group of 7th graders from nearby Hardy Middle…
February 19, 2014
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Pictures of Need
A group of medical students, graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty gathered on Monday, March 12 to listen to Nils Daulaire, M.D., discuss his experiences working in…
February 19, 2014