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Xiaoyan Zheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the underlying mechanisms of the Hedgehog receptor.

GW's Yolanda Haywood, M.D., RESD ’87, CERT ’04, B.S. ’81, and J. Keith Melancon, M.D., Ph.D., were named among BlackDoctor.org’s 2017 Top Blacks in Healthcare honorees.

The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Office of Communications and Marketing has kicked off 2017 with five Hermes Creative Awards.

Benjamin Blatt, M.D., professor of medicine at the George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will receive the Distinguished Service and Leadership Award presented by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA…

A research team at Children’s National Health System, led by Zhe Han, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Cancer & Immunology Research, published a report in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology about a dietary supplement that has demonstrated the ability to…

Brad Jones, Ph.D., assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine, published research in Cell Host & Microbe finding defective HIV proviruses, long thought to be harmless, produce viral proteins and distract the immune system from killing intact proviruses needed to…

Jesse M. Pines, M.D., director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research and professor of emergency medicine and health policy and management at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will be a featured speaker during the Becker’s Hospital Review 8th …

John Hawdon, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, became vice president of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP) and received the 2016 ASP Henry Baldwin Ward Medal.

Allan L. Goldstein, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Residence of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, co-authored a paper published in Nature Medicine finding a potential new drug to treat and stop the progression of cystic fibrosis. 

Jesse M. Pines, M.D., director of the Center for Healthcare Innovation and Policy Research and professor of emergency medicine and health policy and management at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, served as co-editor of a newly published reference book.