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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
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Guinevere Eden Honored by International Dyslexia Association
The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) awarded GUMC’s Guinevere Eden, D. Phil., with its Norman Geschwind Award – an honor recognizing her outstanding…
December 1, 2016