Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics, and Joseph Scafidi, M.D., assistant professor of neurology, were interviewed by NPR's Shots for a story on their research finding that a naturally occurring substance called epidermal growth factor appears to reverse a type of brain damage that's common in very premature infants.
NPR - A Growth Factor Heals the Damage to a Preemie's Brain — In Mice
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Alison Hall, PhD, senior associate dean for research at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), recently assumed the added role of interim director of the GW Cancer Center following the departure of Julie Bauman, MD. In this Q+A she discusses future plans for the GW Cancer Center.
Abigail Polter, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology and physiology, recently received a grant from the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative to study a small, but integral part of the mid-brain, called the ventral tegmental area responsible for executive function that she…
Pedro Gazzinelli Guimarães, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently named among the “New Voices in Microbiology” by the journal Infection and Immunity.
