Press Releases
John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, was recently awarded $430,722 from the National Institutes of Health to develop a model system to study parasitic nematode infection, which will lead to greater understanding of the infective process and the…
Valerie Hu, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine, was awarded $435K from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to study how certain environmental factors affect the gene RORA, which has been shown to be an important regulator of multiple genes of neurological…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is now accepting applications for a new, online graduate degree program in emergency medical services leadership for the fall 2014 term.
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.
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.
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.
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…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and The Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing, China are pleased to announce the award of significant funding for an international co-operative project to understand the molecular mechanisms of a very common blood coagulation disorder…