Press Releases
Children's National Health System, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health have launched a clinical partnership devoted to treating allergic, immunologic, and infectious diseases in children.
Paul Brindley, PhD, has received more than $1.7 million from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health to investigate the cellular and molecular links between liver fluke infection and bile duct cancer.
A team at the GW Cancer Center will study the role of the COMPASS complex in the initiation and progression of pancreatic cancer.
Jeffrey M. Bethony, PhD, professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and David Diemert, MD, associate professor of medicine, published an article in Trends in Parasitology on lessons learned while creating hookworm and schistosomiasis vaccine candidates.
Transgender individuals may be at higher risk for heart disease, according to a review article published by Michael S. Irwig, MD, associate professor of medicine, in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences signed an articulation agreement with Maryland University of Integrative Health, a national leader in the education and practice of natural medicine.
The GW Health Workforce Institute announced that its Leaders for Health Equity Fellowship program has officially joined the global community of Atlantic Fellows. The program will now be known as the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity.
Chiara Manzini, PhD, received more than $2 million to study molecular mechanisms of male bias in autism.
The newly established Health Sciences Academy at T.C. Williams High School has been endorsed by Virginia state as a fully-fledged Governor’s Academy for the 2018-19 school year.
Adam Friedman, MD, professor of dermatology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and his team investigated the use of nanotechnology to improve efinaconazole treatment and make it more cost effective.