Archive: News Release

• 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

• Georgetown’s Rebecca Katz Named Advisor on Biden Coronavirus Task Force

  WASHINGTON (November 9, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center’s Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH,  director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, has been named as an advisor for President-elect Joe Biden’s new coronavirus task force. Katz has been part of a team advising Biden on COVID-19 for the last several months along with […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, coronavirus, COVID-19, global health, pandemic

• Study of Reaching and Grasping with Hand or Foot Reveals Novel Brain Insights

  WASHINGTON (October 26, 2020) — People born without upper limbs who use their feet to reach for an item engage the same area in the brain that people with hands use to reach for something, report Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists. The finding, published October 26, 2020, in PNAS, advances the basic science of brain […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain plasticity, brain research, limb prostheses, mind, neuroscience, Sensory and Motor Plasticity Lab

• Answering 7 Key Questions About COVID-19 Vaccines

  WASHINGTON (October 16, 2020) — When a vaccine to reduce the risk of getting COVID-19 becomes available, clinicians will be critical in helping people make decisions about whether or not to receive the vaccine. Writing in a JAMA Viewpoint published today, three top vaccine experts offer key questions clinicians might expect from patients, and guidance […]

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

• Immunotherapy Combo Halts Rare, Stage 4 Sarcoma in Teen

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

• Top Vaccine Experts Join Forces to Provide Objective Perspective and Analysis as COVID-19 Vaccine Data Emerge

  The COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team (COVAT) also offers weekly media availability. WASHINGTON (October 12, 2020) — At a time of growing skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines, an ensemble of some of America’s most trusted vaccine scientific experts has launched the COVID-19 Vaccine Analysis Team, or COVAT, to provide rapid and objective expert analysis and communications on […]

  Category: News Release Tags: COVID-19, global health, vaccine development