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Mary Ann Stepp, Ph.D., professor of anatomy and regenerative biology and of ophthalmology, received a $2.8 million, five-year R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her 27 years of research on corneal wound healing.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ International Medicine Programs and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine are co-sponsoring a two-day scientific research summit with the Instituto Butantan and Universidade de São Paulo focused on Zika virus. The summit…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Office of Communications and Marketing recently won four new awards, bringing its 2016 total to seven.
GW’s Office of International Medicine Programs hosts volunteer anesthesiologists with Operation Smile for hands-on Medicon training and expert-led workshops.
GW Hospital’s stroke team is among the nation’s leaders in acute care.
As a budding neuroscientist, Kevin Pelphrey intended to study how the human brain understands other humans—knowledge for knowledge’s sake, as he described it. And it was mostly so he could play with scanners and analyze “cool-looking” pictures of the brain.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences hosted its first Student Debt Symposium, designed to raise awareness and promote solutions to health education debt.
The role of youth in their health and the health of their communities was the theme of the 4th Annual Rodham Institute Summit. Community leaders, clinicians and students presenting at the day-long event emphasized how to engage and lift up young people living in underserved areas.
Participants in the multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health BELIEVE grant gather in Washington, D.C. for their first meeting.
Research by Sutas Suttiprapa, Ph.D., Paul Brindley, Ph.D., and others in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine found a modified form of the HIV-1 virus can integrate into the genome of the parasitic flatworm that causes the disease schistosomiasis. The research…