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Major American and Mexican Universities Join the Carlos Slim Health Institute to Kick-Off a Partnership to Develop Vaccines against Neglected Diseases

The George Washington University, Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Autonomous University of Yucatan, and the Carlos Slim Health Institute are launching a major effort to develop a new generation of vaccines to combat various neglected diseases in Latin America.

Children’s National and GW Award More Than $1 Million in Grants

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN), a partnership of Children’s National Medical Center and The George Washington University, has awarded more than $1 million in grants for 15 Pilot Studies projects, four Novel Clinical and Translational…

Margaret Plack, Ed.D., Receives American Physical Therapy Association’s Award for Leadership in Education

Margaret Plack, Ed.D., Interim Senior Associate Dean for the Health Sciences Programs and Associate Professor of Health Care Sciences at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received the Award for Leadership in Education from the American Physical Therapy…

A Nobel Past, A Colonial Future

The world according to Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., is a place where rules are made to be broken. Research, he reminds us, is a creative process; and belief in your own heretical observations, he proves, is more fruitful than subscription to scientific dogma.

GW Researchers Collaborate on NIH Study in Mice that Uncovers Pathway Critical for UV-induced Melanoma

GW Researchers collaborated to make an unanticipated discovery in mice that interferon-gamma, a type of protein primarily used by the immune system for intercellular communication, acts as a promoter for the deadly form of skin cancer known as melanoma.

Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad to Establish Lab at GW, Join Faculty

A Nobel Prize winner will soon be teaching and conducting life saving research at the George Washington University. Professor Ferid Murad, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine and world renowned pioneer in biochemistry, will join the faculty in April 2011.

Richard L. Abbott, M.D., Begins Term as President of American Academy of Ophthalmology

Richard L. Abbott, M.D. became the new president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology on January 1, 2011. Dr. Abbott received his medical doctorate in 1971 from The George Washington University School of Medicine.

Colleges Limited in What They Can do About Troubled Students

Jared Lee Loughner, who is accused of critically wounding a U.S. congresswoman, fits the profile of a mentally unstable youth.

Heartening Therapies

The concept once seemed futuristic: medical decision-making hinged on an individual’s genetic makeup rather than population statistics. But today, the hope of personalized medicine is being pursued at labs around the world, most drastically shaping the field of oncology.

Just Talk or Real Threat? Shooting Raises Questions About Rhetoric

The shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has sparked an intense debate over whether incendiary political talk is a real danger or merely vivid political rhetoric.