All Posts: biomedical research
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Donors Get Firsthand Look at How Funds for New Medical Research Are Used
(February 10, 2020) — Current and potential donors to the Partners in Research program were given a rare look into the laboratories where medical tests and drug trials get their start. During the recent “Night at the Lab” tour on the Georgetown University Medical Center campus, participants walked down white halls lined with posters of […]
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Partners in Research Supports Visionary Scientists
(December 14, 2019) — Research is a chicken-and-egg phenomenon. One thing leads to another. But without investigational funding there is no chicken. And no egg. So says Nady Golestaneh, PhD, MSc, adding that she would not be where she is today in her quest to prevent a common blindness in the elderly without small grants […]
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Finding Upends Theory about the Cerebellum’s Role in Reading and Dyslexia
WASHINGTON (October 9, 2019) — New brain imaging research debunks a controversial theory about dyslexia that can impact how it is sometimes treated, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists say. The cerebellum, a brain structure traditionally considered to be involved in motor function, has been implicated in the reading disability known as developmental dyslexia. However, this […]
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Meet Moshe Levi, MD, Interim Dean for Research
(October 8, 2019) — Moshe Levi, MD, describes himself as a “card-carrying kidney doctor” who says he once focused 100% of his time on research and another 25% on patient care. But when a family move brought him to Georgetown in 2017, he saw the opportunity to give his full devotion (all 125% of it) […]
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Georgetown Offers Multiple Clinical Trials for People with Lewy Body Dementia
WASHINGTON (October 8, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center, a Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Association Research Center of Excellence, is now offering three clinical trials to study new treatments for LBD, a disease often confused with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. Lewy body dementia has similar symptoms to both Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases — some people […]
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Celebrating National Postdoc Appreciation Week
Reiko Asano, PhD, RN Reiko Asano, PhD, RN, is a postdoc in the department of professional nursing practice studying palliative care in heart failure. Reiko was inspired to study cardiovascular disease after caring for patients suffering from high symptom burden and repeated hospitalizations. Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Alexandra Taraboletti, PhD, is […]
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Riegel Named Leader of Biomedical Graduate Education
(September 4, 2019) — The Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) program, home to a robust variety of PhD, master’s and certificate programs, has a new leader. Research oncologist Anna Tate Riegel, PhD, has been named senior associate dean of BGE following the retirement of Barbara Bayer, PhD, who led the program for eight years. Riegel joined […]
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Georgetown Introduces Biotechnology to High School Students Through New Partnership
(August 2, 2019) — In collaboration with Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE), Georgetown’s School of Continuing Studies (SCS) recently launched the Experiences in Biotechnology Academy, a two-week summer program for high school students. The inaugural cohort of 32 students began coursework on June 24 and concluded on July 6. Accepting both residential and commuter participants, the […]
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Studying Barriers to Health Care to Help Women with HIV
(June 12, 2019) — Seble G. Kassaye, MD, MS, can’t help but see parallels between HIV-positive African American women in the DC area and conditions surrounding rising rates of HIV infection as it swept through Ethiopia, the country where she was born and raised until a teenager. The infection in Ethiopia occurred largely in urban […]
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Researchers Find Labels of U.S. Probiotic Products Lacking
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 4, 2019) — When it comes to buying probiotics, many product labels do not give consumers enough information to make an informed decision, according to a research team led by Georgetown University Medical Center. In their study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, investigators found that of 93 […]
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