Press Releases
Researchers at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the GW School of Engineering and Applied Science received $1.6 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study a heart-brain connection that could help the nearly 23 million people suffering from heart failure…
Ferid Murad, M.D, Ph.D., university professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, and Ka Bian, M.D, Ph.D., M.B.A., associate research professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, published a paper in The FASEB Journal finding a potential new "wonder drug" for illnesses such as breast…
WASHINGTON (May 25, 2016) – Shawneequa Callier, J.D., assistant professor of clinical research and leadership in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, is a co-author on a Perspective article featured in the May 26 edition of The New England Journal of Medicine titled, “Will Precision…
David Diemert, M.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, and Jeffrey Bethony, Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, received a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to work on a phase 1 clinical trial to…
This week more than one hundred doctors and residents from around the world will gather at four universities across the nation, including the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, to enhance participant’s existing medical skills and learn new surgical techniques, creating a platform for skill…
The GW Cancer Center received nearly $100,000 to reduce cancer disparities in Washington, D.C.’s lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities from Susan G. Komen.
The fourth-annual International Conference on Nutrition and Medicine, jointly sponsored by The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and the nonprofit Physicians Committee, takes place at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, from July 29 to 30, 2016.
The GW Cancer Institute, the patient-centered care and health equity arm of the newly established GW Cancer Center, was presented with a $100,000 check from The Avon Foundation for Women at the AVON 39 The Walk to End Breast Cancer closing ceremonies in Washington, D.C.
Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute and professor of pharmacology and physiology, was published in JAMA Psychiatry about a new method to map and track the function of brain circuits affected by autism spectrum disorder in boys using brain…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce a new Fellowship in Integrative Medicine.