Press Archive
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…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Victoria Shanmugam, MBBS, MRCP, has been appointed to serve as the director of the Division of Rheumatology in the Department of Medicine.
The GW Institute for Spirituality and Health, in partnership with the John Templeton Foundation, is pleased to announce the GWish-Templeton Reflection Rounds award winners.
Urgent Matters, Blue Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group are now accepting submissions for the 2014 Emergency Care Innovation of the Year Award, a competition to foster innovation in emergency departments nationwide.
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Physical Therapy Program is pleased to host, in conjunction with Woods Duncan Consulting, “Preparing the Next Generation of Physical Therapists for Innovative Practice,” to be held July 25-26 at GW’s Marvin Center in Washington, D.C.
Paul Kimmel, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, and Lakhmir Chawla, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, published a review article in the New England Journal of Medicine, calling for greater follow-up care of patients with acute kidney injury, who often…
Christina Puchalski, M.D., director of the GW Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, was recognized by the Association of Professional Chaplains and the European Society for Person Centered Healthcare for her tireless efforts to create a more spiritually-minded health…
Author Leana Wen, M.D., director of patient-centered care research and assistant professor of emergency medicine, teaches patients how to better advocate for their health in her book, “When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Testing.”
Alexandros Tzatsos, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, was awarded over one million dollars in grants from the National Institutes of Health to study the molecular foundations of pancreatic cancer.