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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…

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…

It’s with great sorrow that the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences announces the passing of James D. Finkelstein, M.D., Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to welcome Jo Shapiro, M.D. ’80, to serve as the keynote speaker at the school’s annual White Coat and Honor Code Ceremony on Aug. 9.

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.