All Posts: biomedical research
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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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Clinical Trial for Men With Osteoporosis Now Open for Volunteers
MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (June 4, 2019) — Enrollment in a clinical trial testing a new treatment for men with osteoporosis is now open at Georgetown University Medical Center. Osteoporosis is a systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone mass and deterioration of bone tissue (brittle bones) that makes bones more fragile and likely to […]
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MedStar Health-Georgetown University Symposium Illustrates Emphasis on Community Care
(June 2, 2019) — Since its founding, Georgetown University Medical Center has committed itself to the principle of cura personalis, caring for the whole person. However, based on the recent MedStar Health—Georgetown University Research Symposium, cura communitas, or care for the whole community, may be an equally good fit. Each year, the joint research symposium […]
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Georgetown University Launches Clinical Trial for Lewy Body Dementia
MEDIA CONTACT:(for members of the press only) Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu PATIENT INFORMATION:Joy Arellanomja6@gunet.georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (May 30, 2019) — Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the only known therapeutic (disease modifying) clinical trial for Lewy body dementia, a neurological disorder that affects a million people in the United States for which there are no approved […]
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Students Leave BGE Programs Inspired by Courses, Faculty and Opportunities
(May 19, 2019) — More than 550 students graduated from Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) certificate, master’s and PhD programs over this past year, with many returning to the Hilltop to attend the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences commencement ceremony on May 17. Georgetown University Medical Center’s BGE supports the over 35 biomedical programs by […]
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