All Posts:pursuing excellence
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Joy Williams Honored with “Legacy” Scholarship at SNMA’s 38th Annual Senior Awards Banquet
Commencement week brings surprises!
Category: GUMC Stories
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MAGIS Society Honors Two Outstanding GUMC Educators
The MAGIS Society of Master Teachers welcomed its newest inductees.
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Georgetown Lombardi Urges HPV Vaccination for Cancer Prevention
WASHINGTON — In response to low national vaccination rates for the human papillomavirus (HPV), Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center joined with other top cancer centers in a joint statement urging increased HPV vaccination for the prevention of cancer. These institutions collectively recognize insufficient vaccination as a public health threat and call upon the nations’ health care providers, young adults and parents to take advantage of the opportunity to prevent cancers.
Category: News Release
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Georgetown Researcher Leads Effort to Decode Anti-malarial Drug Resistance
WASHINGTON — Even as the global malarial pandemic appears to be on a decline, drug resistant malarial parasites are on the rise, says an infectious disease researcher at Georgetown University Medical Center, who is taking the lead on a multi-institutional effort to investigate the causes of this growing concern.
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Two GUMC Researchers Named National Academy of Inventors Fellows
WASHINGTON – The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named two Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) professors to its 2015 class of Fellows — Milton L. Brown, MD, PhD, and Usha N. Kasid, PhD.
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Elissa Newport to Receive Prestigious Franklin Institute Award
Georgetown University Medical Center researcher Elissa L. Newport, PhD, has been announced as one of nine scientists and innovators who are selected to receive a 2015 Franklin Institute Award for her contributions to understanding the nature of human language.
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Researcher Debunks Alzheimer's Prevailing Development Theory
(October 31, 2014) – New research that dramatically alters the prevailing theory of how Alzheimer’s disease develops has been published online today by Georgetown researchers in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration. The research also helps explains why some people with plaque buildup in their brains don’t develop dementia, and shows the potential of a cancer drug […]
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Georgetown Bioethicist Tapped for Vatican Advisory Post
Kevin FitzGerald, PhD, SJ, a Jesuit priest, Georgetown bioethicist and cancer researcher, has been appointed by Pope Francis to serve as a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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Georgetown Starts Study to Halt Alzheimer’s Disease in Those at High-Risk
WASHINGTON–Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have launched a clinical study aimed at preventing or delaying Alzheimer’s disease in people who don’t have symptoms but already have the tale-tell signs in their brains.
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New Collaboration Seeks to Bridge East-West Medicine Divide
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is seeking to promote the integration of traditional Eastern approaches to medicine with evidence-based medicine through a new collaboration with a medical center in South Korea.
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