All Posts: Biomedical Graduate Education
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Jesuit Urges Graduate School Class of 2025 to Be a ‘Defender of Hope’ in Graduation Address
With freshly donned academic hoods, 922 students from Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Biomedical Graduate Education crossed the Healy Lawn’s commencement stage on May 16.
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In Photos: Biomedical Graduate Education Commencement 2025
BGE’s graduating Class of 2025 marked Commencement season with end-of-semester poster sessions, program galas and parties, the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony on May 15, and the Graduate School Commencement ceremony on May 16.
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Learning Together: Community Builders in BGE’s Class of 2025
As Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) celebrates the accomplishments of the 462 graduating students at Commencement this year, we also recognize the communities that support and inspire them in their academic and professional journeys.
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NIH Funding Advances Health Sciences and Trains Biomedical Leaders at Georgetown University Medical Center
As an R1 research institution, Georgetown University is dedicated to fostering discoveries and scientific advancements while training the next generation of researchers. Nearly $3.8 million in government funding comes through training grants, which give students and postdoctoral fellows the opportunity to learn from leaders in biomedicine while contributing to cutting-edge, impact-focused projects. Four current NIH grant-supported PhD students share their research and how their studies and programs are helping them reach their career goals.
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Tumor Biology Program Alumnus Jean-Baptiste Mazarati Builds Health Care Excellence in Rwanda
Since graduating from Georgetown with a PhD in Tumor Biology in 2012, Jean-Baptiste Mazarati has emerged as a health leader in his native Rwanda.
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With a New ‘Map’ of Cells, Georgetown Cancer Researchers Chart a Course to More Effective Treatment
Faculty and students from Biomedical Graduate Education programs, the School of Medicine and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are developing a new technique that could revolutionize the way cancers are tracked and treated. Instead of invasive surgical biopsies or time-consuming scans, clinicians could use simple blood tests to determine where the cancer is and whether it is responding to treatment.
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Tumor Biology Student Sidharth Jain Combines Discovery and Care on MD/PhD Path
As an MD/PhD in Tumor Biology student, Sidharth Jain works between two worlds of health science. On the PhD side, lab research, data analysis and discovery; on the MD side, patients fighting for their lives.
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Kickstarting Careers with Biotechnology Capstone Internships
During their spring semester, students in Georgetown’s Master of Science in Biotechnology program complete capstone internships in addition to their coursework that often prove to be the entrée to employment in the field.
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‘Be Your Own Miracle’: Commencement Speaker Reflects on Meaning of Graduate Education
More than 400 Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) graduates received master’s and doctoral degrees in various fields across basic and applied science, clinical disciplines, data science and pre-health training during the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) Commencement.
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Neuroscientist Receives 2024 Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award
Andrew Speidell (G’16, G’22), an alumnus of the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, was honored with the prestigious Harold N. Glassman Distinguished Dissertation Award at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences’ 2024 Doctoral Hooding Ceremony.
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