All Posts: News Release

• Researchers Find Diverse Supportive Partnerships Among Older Gay Men With and Without HIV

  WASHINGTON (February 17, 2021) — Recent data reveals that gay men living with HIV report having supportive relationships with family, friends or in informal relationships rather than with primary romantic partners, while gay men who are HIV-negative report having relationships mainly with primary partners. Additionally, gay men living with HIV were more likely to report […]

  Category: News Release Tags: HIV, impact of social support on HIV, School of Medicine

• Mechanism for How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immunotherapy Elucidated

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, pancreatic cancer

• Male Breast Cancer Patients Face High Prevalence of Heart Disease Risk Factors

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cardio-oncology, cardiology, cardiovascular risk, Georgetown Lombardi, male breast cancer

• Georgetown Global Health Expert on U.S. Remaining in WHO

  WASHINGTON (January 21, 2021) — Today marks another important step as the United States reaffirms its status as a World Health Organization (WHO) Member State. On Wednesday, in a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres, President Biden terminated the previous administration’s efforts to leave the WHO, the organization responsible for directing and […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, global health, World Health Organization

• Georgetown Researchers Launch Online Library Chronicling 25 Years of Pandemic Preparedness Policy

  WASHINGTON (January 12, 2021) — Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Security (GHSS) today announced the launch of the most comprehensive collection of documents from the last two and a half decades of pandemic preparedness planning. The online collection, “Health Security Net,” was unveiled January 12 at the Futures Forum on Preparedness, which […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, global health, pandemic, pandemic preparedness

• Tweaking AI Software to Function Like a Human Brain Improves Computer’s Learning Ability

  WASHINGTON (January 12, 2021) — Computer-based artificial intelligence can function more like human intelligence when programmed to use a much faster technique for learning new objects, say two neuroscientists who designed such a model to mirror human visual learning. In the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, professor of neuroscience at Georgetown University […]

  Category: News Release Tags: artificial intelligence, brain, brain research, learning, neuroscience

• Georgetown Professor Comments on FDA Authorization of Vaccine to Prevent COVID-19

  WASHINGTON (December 11, 2020) — This evening, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine. Former FDA Chief Scientist and infectious disease physician Jesse Goodman, MD, MPH, professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, celebrates and provides a brief perspective on this historic moment: “The first emergency use authorization […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, vaccination, vaccine development

• Disrupting the Cellular Process That Promotes Pancreatic Cancer’s Deadly Growth

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, pancreatic cancer

• Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer prevention, Georgetown Lombardi, smoking, smoking cessation, teen smoking, tobacco use

• HIV Policies In Most Countries Are Not Aligned With International Standards, Undermining Progress Against AIDS, New Report Shows

  Category: News Release Tags: global health, HIV, O'Neill Institute