Press Releases

In two scientific papers published Tuesday, researchers identified two approaches that have the potential to help a large number of children with autism spectrum disorder through behavioral therapy.
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 takes…
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 was…
Urgent Matters, Philips Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Clinical Partners are pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
Reamer L. Bushardt, Pharm.D., PA-C, DFAAPA, tenured professor and chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's School of Medicine, was named senior associate dean for health sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. 
Matthew Colonnese, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and physiology and member of the Institute for Neuroscience, and Yasunobu Murata, Ph.D., researcher scientist in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, authored a study published in eLife finding that fetal brains use a special…
Stephen Teach, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, published multiple studies in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology finding five distinct asthma phenotypes. 
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce the launch of the first-ever online Community of Practice for patient-centered cancer care. 
The GW Cancer Center is pleased to announce that Michael K. Benedict, PharmD, has been appointed as the associate center director for administration and finance.