All Posts: GUMC Stories
1611 Articles
- GUMC Stories
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 weekend…
January 19, 2019
- GUMC Stories
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 for…
January 11, 2019
- GUMC Stories
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
- GUMC Stories
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 Schering…
January 10, 2019
- GUMC Stories
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
- GUMC Stories
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
- GUMC Stories
Adams-Campbell, Internationally Renowned Cancer Epidemiologist, Named a 2018 Washingtonian of the Year
(December 19, 2018) — Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, professor of oncology and associate director for minority health and health disparities research at Georgetown Lombardi…
December 19, 2018
- GUMC Stories
Ruesch Center and OncLive Recognize Former VP Biden at the Luminary Awards
(December 9, 2018) — Former Vice President Joe Biden was among those who were recognized for improving the lives of patients with gastrointestinal cancer at the Second…
December 9, 2018
- GUMC Stories
GWIM Honors ‘Role Models’ in Medicine
(December 9, 2018) — At their annual awards ceremony and reception, Georgetown Women in Medicine (GWIM) recognized women on the faculty at GUMC for their accomplishments in…
December 9, 2018
- GUMC Stories
Georgetown Team Finds Richness in Collaboration with Jesuit Clinic in Liberia
(December 7, 2018) — The team from Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) didn’t know what to expect when they set out in early November for Caldwell,…
December 7, 2018