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Susan G. Komen announced $1.5 million in new D.C.-area community health grants, some of which will go to the GW Cancer Institute for their community outreach programs.

On March 14, 2013, three faculty members at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences were honored at the sixth annual American Medical Student Association Women Leaders in Medicine Awards.

Mudit Tyagi, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine, has received two federally funded grants to study the dangerous effects of cocaine on those living with HIV.

The Department will host Phillip A. Sharp, Ph.D., Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, to speak on “The Biology and Synthesis of Non-coding RNAs."

The GW Physician Assistant Program and the Rwandan Embassy are asking for donated materials, such as lab coats, training supplies, and text books, to help support struggling health professional students in Rwanda.

Congratulations to the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences faculty members, Jennifer Halvaksz, assistant clinical professor of physical therapy and health care sciences, and Karen Schlumpf, M.P.H., lecturer of clinical research and leadership, for being selected…

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences congratulates its fourth-year medical students, who were “matched” for residency at a Match Day ceremony on Friday, March 15.

Xiaoyan Zheng, Ph.D., received a $747,000 grant to research Hedgehog signaling pathway regulation of cell-cell adhesion and segregation.

Medical students at SMHS will join together in a Match Day ceremony on March 15 at noon, where they will simultaneously receive and open envelopes revealing where they’ll spend the next several years of their residency training.

The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is pleased to announce that Lawrence “Bopper” Deyton, M.D., ‘85, former director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will be joining the GW SMHS faculty as a clinical professor of…