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Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience and professor of pharmacology and physiology, received a $739K grant from the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative to study the link between autism and disrupted brain development.
Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor of pharmacology and physiology, was published in Cell Reports for her research finding that autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability often occur together and may even share similar genetic causes.
Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and instructor of emergency medicine, talked to WTOP-FM about teaching patients how to better advocate for their health and her book, recently released in paperback, “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences has introduced a new, online graduate degree for health care quality, which is now accepting applications for the fall 2014 term.
Book by GW physician Leana Wen teaches patients how to advocate for their health.
Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Henry Kaminski, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, were featured in Medical News Today for their recently published research in PLOS ONE, finding that autoimmune disorders share…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to introduce its online graduate degree and certificate programs for regulatory affairs, which is now accepting applications for the fall 2014 term.
Linda Kusner, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Henry Kaminski, M.D., chair of the Department of Neurology, were published in PLOS ONE for their research on autoimmune disorders sharing pathogenic mechanisms with cancer.
Mohamad Koubeissi and team may have discovered the "on-off switch" for consciousness in the human brain.
Douglas Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, was published in the Cutting Edge section of the Journal of Immunology for his discovery of an antibody that can neutralize the HIV-1 fossil virus. This may lead to viable immunotherapy option…