News Archive

Victoria Shanmugam, M.D., director of the Division of Rheumatology, published research in Wound Repair and Regeneration on a new method for detection of infection in wounds that could take physicians less than a minute to complete, rather than the current 24 hours it takes to confirm the…

The Department of Anatomy and Regenerative Biology has for many years operated a willed body donor program. Under this program, individuals generously donated their bodies to be used for the advancement of science and medical education. These selfless gifts have been essential to the training of…

Kevin Pelphrey will serve as the inaugural director of GW’s Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute. Dr. Pelphrey brings more than 15 years of experience in autism and neuroscience research, most recently as director of Yale University’s Center for Translational Developmental…

Connie Mahon, M.S., adjunct professor at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, discusses a love of learning and teaching.

MaxMind, an industry-leading provider of IP security and online fraud detection tools, has given a $100K gift to the GW’s Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty to end schistosomiasis through gene drive technology. 

Recently there has been significant news coverage about the Zika Virus, which is spread to people through mosquito bites.

Just a few weeks removed from the record-high drawing of the Powerball lottery, a pair of GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) M.D. program Class of 2017 students received substantial prizes of their own: the third annual Primary Care Scholarships.

Physician assistant students and an alumna from the Physician Assistant (PA) Program at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) talked to two dozen students at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia about career pathways toward becoming a PA.

MacArthur Genius Fellow and Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee discussed the importance of social determinants of health at the inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in Clinical Public Health Jan. 14.

The GW Ron and Joy Paul Kidney Center and the GW Transplant Institute provided blood pressure screenings to hundreds of members of the D.C. area community.