All Posts: clinical trials

• Georgetown Lombardi Clinical Trial Helps Advance Use of Immunotherapy in Liver Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, liver cancer

• Nilotinib Appears Safe in Parkinson’s Trial; Drug Thought to Allow Dopamine Replenishment

  WASHINGTON (December 16, 2019) — A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and well tolerated. Researchers also report finding an increase in dopamine, the chemical lost as a result of neuronal destruction, and a decrease in neurotoxic proteins in the brain among […]

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, clinical trials, mind, neurodegenerative disease, neuroscience, Parkinson's disease

• Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials

• Virtual Review of Cancer Clinical Trial Treatment Options Quicker Than Conventional Methods

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical informatics, cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi

• 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 […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, Lewy body dementia, movement disorders, Translational Neurotherapeutics Program

• The Right Place, the Right Time, the Right People, Thanks to Cancer Center Collaboration

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi

• Georgetown Technique Using Urine Suggests Individualized Bladder Cancer Treatment Possible

  Category: News Release Tags: bladder cancer, cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi

• 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 […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, male osteoporosis

• Georgetown’s Memory Disorders Program Marks 20th Year

  (April 12, 2019) — When President Ronald Reagan announced in 1994 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, the man known as the “great communicator” tried his best to convey a sense of optimism. “I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Alzheimer's disease, clinical trials, mind, neuroscience

• Personalized Medicine Clinical Trial Underway for Type of Incontinence Common in Women

  MEDIA CONTACT:Karen Teberkm463@georgetown.edu WASHINGTON (April 2, 2019) — A novel clinical trial aims to reverse the cause of a common problem among older women — accidental urine leakage — by using a patient’s own muscle cells. The study, now underway in the Washington area, is for women with stress urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence, or […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biomedical research, clinical trials, personalized medicine, School of Medicine, urology, women's health