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Global Health Experts Advise Advance Planning for Inevitable Pandemic
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speaks at Georgetown University Medical Center and urges the incoming Trump…
January 12, 2017
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GWIM Recognizes Outstanding Female Faculty at Awards Ceremony
With a nod to the past and a focus on the future, the annual Georgetown Women in Medicine Awards Ceremony celebrated the achievements of six women faculty in the areas of…
December 21, 2016
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Giordano to Serve on Committee Advising HHS Secretary on Human Research Protections
James Giordano, PhD, a Georgetown bioethics expert, was recently appointed to a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) committee charged with protecting human research…
December 20, 2016
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Faith Organizations Gather in Rome to Discuss Ways to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance
A Georgetown co-sponsored workshop examining ways faith-based organizations might address the growing global health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can help “…
December 15, 2016
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Doctoral Student to Use Fellowship for Brain Iron Deficiency Research
Erika Raven (G’17), a Ph.D. candidate in Georgetown’s Interdisciplinary Program for Neuroscience (IPN), has been selected as the 2017 Marshall Sherfield Fellow for…
December 14, 2016
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Researchers Design Innovative System to Universally Catalogue Cancer Gene Variants
Subha Madhavan, PhD, and her colleagues have developed a standard way for researchers everywhere to describe and catalog the gene mutations found in cancer biopsies. They also…
December 9, 2016
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New Marshall Scholar Plans to Research Brain Cancer, New Therapies
Recent Georgetown graduate Seamus Caragher (C'16) has been named a 2017 Marshall Scholar and plans to use his scholarship to pursue one-year master’s degrees in cancer…
December 8, 2016
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Georgetown Professor’s Debut Book Among the “Best of” 2016
Georgetown professor Timothy Jorgensen, PhD, MPH, described as “a scientist with a knack for narrative storytelling” now finds his first book, which aims to dispel…
December 8, 2016
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Identifying the Unmet Needs of Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients
More than 400 health professionals, patients and advocates attended the Seventh Annual Ruesch Center Symposium, titled “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer," in person…
December 7, 2016
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Professor Appointed to President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities
As a member of the committee, Tawara D. Goode, assistant professor in the department of pediatrics, will advise the president on ways to support the inclusion of people with…
December 1, 2016