Press Archive
David Diemert, MD, associate professor, and Jeffrey Bethony, PHD, professor, both in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, received a $3 million UOI grant from the National Institutes of Health to test the efficacy of a candidate recombinant hookworm vaccine.…
Raya Elfadel Kheirbek, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences published research in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, about the long health and life spans of centenarian veterans.
Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences received a NIH grant to develop databases to normalize cancer genomics data.
Katherine Chretien, M.D., assistant dean for student affairs, and associate professor of medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was elected to the executive board of the Northeast Group on Student Affairs.
Karen A. Wright, PhD, PA-C, was named assistant dean for student life and academic support of health sciences at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Wright is an assistant professor and interim chair of the Department of Physician Assistant Studies and the PA program director.
Colin Young, Ph.D, published research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation Insight showing that endoplasmic reticulum stress in the brain may contribute to development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
Anelia Horvath, Ph.D., associate research professor of pharmacology & physiology, published research in the New England Journal of Medicine finding that some women with BRCA 1/2 genetic mutations also have the co-occurrence of a rare COMT genetic variant.
Jennifer Bires, LICSW, OSW-C, program coordinator of patient support services at the GW Cancer Center, was named the 2017 AOSW Oncology Social Worker of the Year.
Ali Rosenberg, graduate student at the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health, was named 2017 Graduate Student Employee of the Year for her work in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership at SMHS.
Salem Noureldine, M.D., a first-year resident in the Department of General Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was a member of the team that developed a consensus statement addressing the surgical guidelines for managing regional metastases in…