All Posts: News Release

• After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side

  As Children with Left-hemisphere Strokes Grow Up, Ability to Understand Language Shifts to Right side. WASHINGTON (October 10, 2022) — A clinical study conducted by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that, for children who had a major stroke to the left hemisphere of their brain within days of their birth, the infant’s brain […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain plasticity, research, stroke

• The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Publishes a Checklist to Maximize the Benefit to Patients for Clinical Trials in Immuno-oncology

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, immunotherapy, research

• Long-term Study Supports Link Between Inflammation and Cognitive Problems in Older Breast Cancer Survivors

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

• Advanced Melanoma Survival Improves Significantly When Immunotherapy is Given Before Targeted Therapy

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, melanoma, research

• Technique Developed in Mice Could Aid Detection of Cancer in Dense Breasts

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, Georgetown Lombardi

• Taking Neuroscience to School: Brain Scans Reveal the Hidden Shape of Thinking and Predict Students’ Learning Better Than Test Scores

  Category: News Release Tags: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, learning, mind, neuroscience

• NSF Awards Georgetown University $12.5M to Establish Institute for Emerging Virus Research

  WASHINGTON (August 10, 2022) — The National Science Foundation has awarded Georgetown University $12.5 million to lead a global team of scientists in establishing a collaborative institute designed to advance research and education around viral emergence — the process of viruses jumping from animals to humans. The Verena (Viral Emergence Research Initiative) Biology Integration Institute, […]

  Category: News Release Tags: Center for Global Health Science and Security, grants and awards, pandemic, pandemic preparedness, research, Verena Biology Integration Institute

• Georgetown Awarded $23.6M to Study Treatments for Acute Rhinosinusitis

  WASHINGTON (July 28, 2022) — The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded a Georgetown University Medical Center research team led by Dan Merenstein, MD, professor of family medicine at Georgetown’s School of Medicine and professor of human science at the School of Health, $23.6 million in research funding to study treatments for acute rhinosinusitis. […]

  Category: News Release Tags: acute rhinosinusitis, research, School of Health, School of Medicine

• Informing Children of a Mother’s Genetic Cancer Risk Does Not Impact Their Health Behaviors

  Category: News Release Tags: genetic counseling, Georgetown Lombardi

• Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Launches BellRinger, Local Bike Ride to End Cancer

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