All Posts: pharmacology

• 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 […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, epilepsy, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, neuroscience, pharmacology

• As Schering Professor of Pharmacology, Kellar Brings Decades of Research Experience

  (January 10, 2019) — In 1966, the Schering-Plough Corporation and Foundation established the first-ever endowed professorship at Georgetown University, in memory of Schering-Plough’s late chairman Francis Cabell Brown (L’23). Currently held by Kenneth Kellar, PhD, the Schering Foundation Professorship in Pharmacology is the oldest endowed professorship at the university, where it has had a transformative impact. […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, endowed professorships, pharmacology, Schering Foundation Professorship in Pharmacology

• ‘Not Just a Flavoring’: Menthol and Nicotine, Combined, Desensitize Airway Receptors

  Menthol acts in combination with nicotine to desensitize receptors in lungs’ airways that are responsible for nicotine’s irritation, say neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

  Category: News Release Tags: menthol, pharmacology, smoking