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The Neuroscience of Love: What’s Going on in the Lovestruck Brain?

Love may not be a choice. It may just be your brain on autopilot intoxicated by the love potion, according to Tom Sherman, a neuroendocrinologist and professor in Georgetown’s…

February 14, 2024

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A Partnership for Good

A conversation with nurse-bioethicist Christine Grady (N’74, G’93) and her husband, new faculty member Anthony…

February 12, 2024

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What It Means To Be Well

Learn about the many aspects of well-being, a signature focus for the School of Health’s research and academic.…

February 12, 2024

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‘Find Your Yes’: Five Alumnae in Medicine Share Their Stories and Advice

Meet five alumnae who developed a friendship at the School of Medicine and eventually wrote a book.…

February 12, 2024

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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