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Researchers announced today that scientists running genomic analyses at George Washington University’s Colonial One High Performance Computing Center will pilot ultra high-speed 40 Gigabit per second data transfers from the National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NLM) using…

The School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Huda M. Ayas, Ed.D. ’06, M.B.A. ’98, M.H.S.A. ’93, will serve as associate dean for international medicine.

Scott Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, was published in Science Translational Medicine for his research finding that gene therapy can elicit a regenerative response in pig hearts.

Collaborative research out of GW reveals new information on the pathogenesis of feeding and swallowing difficulties often found in children with neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism and intellectual disability.

Gerald Lazarus, M.D. ‘63, member of the GW Board of Trustees and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Dean’s Council, was selected by the American Skin Association to receive the 2014 David Martin Carter Mentor Award.

Christina Puchalski, M.D.’94, RESD’97, founder and director of the George Washington University Institute for Spirituality and Health and professor of medicine, published a commentary in Academic Medicine on the history of spirituality and health, the movement to reclaim medicine’s spiritual…

Seth Rosenblatt, a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has been named a regional coordinator for the American Academy of Family Physicians National Family Medicine Interest Group Network.

The George Washington University Cancer Institute was featured on the cover of this month's Oncology Issues for a paper on how the Institute prepared to meet new standards from the American College of Surgeon's Commission on Cancer by catalyzing patient-centered care.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Nancy Gaba, M.D.’93, RESD ’97, FACOG, a longtime leader at GW, will serve as the new chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Vittorio Gallo, Ph.D., director of the Center for Neuroscience Research at Children’s National Health System and professor of pediatrics, and other researchers have found a “potentially novel therapeutic target” to reduce the rate of deterioration and to promote growth of brain cells damaged by…