All Posts: News Release

• 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

• Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, space travel

• Commonly Used Antibiotic Shows Promise for Combating Zika Infections

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, global health, infectious disease, mosquito borne disease, Zika

• Boosting Stem Cell Activity Can Enhance Immunotherapy Benefits

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, immunotherapy, The Loop Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory

• Shutting Down COVID-19 Virus’s Destructive Proteins with Aerosolized Molecules

  WASHINGTON (November 13, 2020) — Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have successfully used molecules comprised of small strands of RNA to shut down the production of destructive proteins generated by the COVID-19 virus. Additionally, the researchers are working to aerosolize the RNA molecules so that they could be incorporated in an inhalable drug that […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2