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News Release

Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use

WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely - known as conditional reprogramming - has been…

February 23, 2015

News Release

Center for Cellular Reprogramming Created To Drive Laboratory Breakthrough

Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, a global center of excellence whose mission is to promote intra- and…

December 12, 2013

GUMC Stories

HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm

(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of…

July 10, 2013

GUMC Stories

New Center Serves as Research Hub

(March 20, 2013) — It quickly became known as the “Georgetown method.” A revolutionary way of growing both tumor and normal cells in order to one day truly personalize…

March 20, 2013

GUMC Stories

Keeping Cells Alive in the Lab

(January 19, 2012) — There is a lot of talk about personalized cancer treatment in medicine these days. One idea is to subject a tumor to different therapies to find the…

January 19, 2012