PHD Programs

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences offers outstanding opportunities for graduate biomedical research, education, and training. Work with some of the nations top researchers, join a community of scholars, and make contributions to understanding the basis of health and disease. 

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Research News

A new research study led by Pedro Gazzinelli Guimaraes, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, titled “Unraveling the Hidden Regulator: Deciphering Endogenous Retroelement Control of Allergic Type 2 Immune Response,” seeks to understand how dormant viruses…

Researchers from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW SMHS) publish a new study in Nature Communications identifying a critical protein, And-1, that plays a vital role in repairing DNA damage caused by UVB radiation — the harmful rays from the sun that can…

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW Cancer Center recently received a $600,000 S10 grant from the NIH to purchase a state-of-the-art BD FACSDiscover™ S8 CellView spectral flow cytometer and live cell sorter. The investment significantly enhances the…