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Jill Biden Joins Washington Area Anchorwomen to Raise Funds for Georgetown’s Capital Breast Care Center

(February 8, 2019) — On a rainy Wednesday night, a sea of pink descended upon D.C.’s wharf for the annual 2019 NewsBash event. The breast cancer charity founded by…

February 8, 2019

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Georgetown Physician Leads International Experts in Developing Treatment Guidelines for Huntington’s Disease Symptoms

(February 1, 2019) — A group of international experts in Huntington’s disease, led by Georgetown University Medical Center’s Karen Anderson, MD, has developed…

February 4, 2019

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Students Find Support and Mentorship Through Anatomy Program

(February 1, 2019) — Despite attending lectures and memorizing diagrams of the human body, the sights, sounds and smells of gross anatomy lab can stir up unexpected…

February 1, 2019

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Undergraduate Leverages Research Opportunities as Global Health Major, Fellow

January 24, 2019

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Walking Warriors Host Grand Start Party, Launching 2019 Fundraising Efforts

(January 19, 2019) — The sobering realities of breast cancer brought dozens of cancer survivors and their friends and family to an event at the Lombardi atrium on a…

January 19, 2019

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Seeking Social Justice for Patients, Medical Students Turn to the Law

(January 11, 2019) — A new program that allows Georgetown University medical students to complete an elective “rotation” in a law clinic is yielding immediate results…

January 11, 2019

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First Patient in a Clinical Trial Using Her Own Blood to Personalize Treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Experiencing Remission

(January 11, 2019) — The first cancer patient to be treated as part of the CAR-T cell clinical trial at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital through Georgetown Lombardi…

January 11, 2019

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As Schering Professor of Pharmacology, Kellar Brings Decades of Research Experience

(January 10, 2019) — In 1966, the Schering-Plough Corporation and Foundation established the first-ever endowed professorship at Georgetown University, in memory of…

January 10, 2019

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Giving Patients A Voice in Breast Cancer Research

(January 4, 2019) — Soon after Hillary Stires, PhD, came to Georgetown Lombardi as a postdoctoral fellow, she started a grant application and asked for feedback from the…

January 4, 2019

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Movement for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Program

(January 4, 2019) — Julia Langley, faculty director of the Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Program (AHP), Carlo Tornatore, MD, director of the neurology department…

January 4, 2019