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Researchers at the George Washington University (GW) have developed a way to test recombinant vaccines for their ability to stay effective after years of storage. This is an important next step in the development of a recombinant hookworm vaccine being developed at GW.
Mitchell R. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as the associate center director for clinical investigations at the GW Cancer Center. In this role, Smith will be responsible for overseeing all clinical cancer research and the clinical cancer research infrastructure of the GW Cancer Center.…
Clinicians and researchers from the GW Department of Dermatology will present on a variety of topics, including nanotechnology, fungal infections of the skin, cannabis for autoimmune diseases, contact dermatitis, and public health threats at the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Academy…
Mandi Pratt-Chapman, M.A., associate center director for patient-centered initiatives and health equity at the GW Cancer Center, co-authored a commentary published in The Lancet Oncology, which calls to bridge the gap between the achievable and the accessible in cancer care.
Lisa M. Guay-Woodford, M.D., director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National (CTSI-CN) and Hudson Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational Science, and Robert H. Miller, Ph.D., co-director of the CTSI-CN and…
Chiara Manzini, Ph.D., assistant professor in pharmacology & physiology, published research in the American Journal of Human Genetics about a newly discovered mutation in the INPP5K gene, which leads to short stature, muscle weakness, intellectual disability, and cataracts,…
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A large international survey, published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology by researchers from La Roche-Posay and GW, asked nearly 20,000 participants about their sun protection behavior and skin cancer awareness.
The Rheumatology Research Foundation recently awarded Aileen Y. Chang, M.D., M.S.P.H., a $75,000 pilot grant to fund her research in rheumatology for a project entitled, “A Pilot Study of the Pathogenesis of Chikungunya Arthritis in the Americas.”
Jeffrey M. Bethony, Ph.D., professor, and David Diemert, M.D., associate professor, both in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, served as co-authors on a review on hookworm infection published in Nature Reviews: Disease Primers.