All Posts: News Release

• Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Subject Matter Experts

  WASHINGTON — Georgetown University professors offer expertise for journalists seeking interviews in a variety of subjects related to COVID-19 (previously known as 2019-nCoV acute respiratory outbreak). Topics include infectious disease control and treatment, traveler screening, global health security, and international health regulations. To schedule an interview, please contact Karen Teber at km463@georgetown.edu . Health Disparities Lucile Adams-Campbell, PhD, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, coronavirus, global health

• Neurologic Drug Combined with Blood Pressure Medicine Reduces Breast Tumor Development in Mice

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research

• Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hackensack Meridian Health Join New York Genome Center as Associate Members

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

• Zooming in on Brain Circuits Allows Researchers to Stop Seizure Activity

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic seizures. The findings, published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provide the first evidence that while different types of seizures start in varied areas of the […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, epilepsy, mind, neuroscience

• Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and well tolerated. Researchers also report finding an increase in dopamine, the chemical lost as a result of neuronal destruction, and a decrease in neurotoxic proteins in the brain among […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, clinical trials, mind, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease

• Veterans Study Suggests Two Subtypes of Gulf War Illness

  WASHINGTON (December 12, 2019) — Brain imaging of veterans with Gulf War illness show varying abnormalities after moderate exercise that can be categorized into two distinct groups — an outcome that suggests a more complex illness that previously thought. Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have shown the Gulf […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain research, Gulf War Illness, neuroimaging, neurology

• Palbociclib is Safe for Women with Advanced Breast Cancer Who Have Unique Gene Alteration

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, health disparities

• Remission of Follicular Lymphoma for Two-Plus Years Indicates Disease-Free Status that Could Be Lifelong

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

• Deeper Look at Tumor’s Genetic Mutations Challenges Current Precision Medicine Approach

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, precision medicine

• Georgetown’s Aykut Üren Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, faculty honors