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What Repetitive Head Impacts Do to the Brain
Concussions and repetitive head impacts are common in sports. Neuroscience professor Mark Burns, PhD, explores what happens in the brain during head impacts and how to possibly treat related neurodegenerative symptoms.
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Innovative Biomedical and Genetics Research Projects Net PhD Students ARCS Scholar Awards
Four doctoral candidates at Georgetown University, including MD/PhD candidate Alexander Lekan (G’26, M’28) in the Tumor Biology Program at the School of Medicine, have been named ARCS Scholars for 2025-2026. The distinction, granted by the Metropolitan Washington Chapter of the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, recognizes graduate students’ valuable research contributions to the fields of science, engineering and medicine.
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‘We’ve Been Blessed’: Transformational Bequest Will Provide Scholarships for STEM Undergraduates, Medical Students
With a transformational bequest, School of Dentistry alumnus Richard Calabrese (D’77) and his wife, Angela, will establish two endowed scholarship funds designed to help aspiring scientists and physicians.
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Reversing Immune Suppression in Pancreatic Cancer Could Lead to Novel Therapies
Georgetown Lombardi researchers discovered that when pancreatic cancer cells send out tiny particles that are packed with certain microRNA molecules, nearby immune cells called macrophages are reprogrammed to help the tumor grow instead of engaging in their regular role of fighting the tumor. This insight from cell and mouse experiments has helped the scientists outline a potential way to reverse the process and possibly improve outcomes in pancreatic cancer.
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Beyond the Clinic: Georgetown Medical Student Trades Scrubs For Suit in Medical-Legal Partnership
Medical student Scott Nichols gained a deep understanding of the intersection of law and medicine in the Cancer Legal Assistance and Wellbeing (LAW) Project, which assigns fourth-year medical students to work alongside attorneys representing cancer patients to address both legal and medical concerns.
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New Understanding of How to Harness the Immune System to Fight Cancer
Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi have identified a new way to reprogram T cells so that they have a superior memory, thereby making them more effective in killing cancer cells. Their recently pubulished finding amplifies a known strategy of blocking the cellular activity of PARP, an enzyme that detects DNA abnormalities in cells and repairs them.
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4 Tips To Counter Brain Rot in 2026, According to Medical School Professors
Learn more about what brain rot is and how to combat it without having to commit to a full social media detox with these tips from professors at Georgetown’s School of Medicine.
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A Classroom Without Walls: School of Health Students Study Health Care from Denmark to Greece
Health Care Management and Policy Program students Dhruvi Parikh (H’27), Nitya Nalamothu (H’27) and Sophia Zhang (H’27), spent the past semester studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark, and gaining valuable insight into health care in other countries.
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Method Developed to Identify Best Treatment Combinations for Glioblastoma Based on Unique Cellular Targets
Researchers have developed a new computational approach that uncovers possible drugs for specific cellular targets for treating glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor. This approach enabled them to predict more effective treatment combinations to fight the disease on an individualized basis. This laboratory and computational research effort was led by scientists at Georgetown Lombardi.
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Clearing the Brain of Aging Cells Could Aid Epilepsy and Reduce Seizures
A new study from researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center found that temporal lobe epilepsy can be treated in mice by either genetically or pharmaceutically eradicating the aging cells, thereby improving memory and reducing seizures as well as protecting some animals from developing epilepsy.
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