Archive: News Release

• 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

• 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