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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…
The GW Heart & Vascular Institute is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012-13 research awards: GW Cardiology Fellows David Cohen, M.D., and Miriam Fishman, M.D.
Neal Barnard, M.D., adjunct associate professor of medicine, has authored, "Power Foods for the Brain," a book that reveals how diet can protect the brain from memory loss, stroke, and Alzheimer's disease.
In an opinion editorial published by McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Jeffrey S. Akman, M.D., dean of the SMHS, and co-author Lynn R. Goldman, M.D., dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services, write to support policies to address deficiencies in the U.S. mental health system and for…
Video capsule endoscopy performed in the emergency department to detect acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding, a potentially life-threatening emergency, may safely allow many patients with gastrointestinal hemorrhage to be discharged home instead of admitted to the hospital, saving the…
The Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center is offering a new, one-year postdoctoral fellowship to support innovative cancer research, thanks to a generous gift from the Albert L. Tucker and Elizabeth T. Tucker Foundation.
The George Washington University Institute of Spirituality and Health (GWISH) convened an international consensus conference to develop recommendations on integrating spirituality into health care systems worldwide.
Lakhmir Chawla, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, and colleagues, validated the effectiveness of the two novel biomarkers in 740 critically ill patients and compared their performance with other biomarkers, including serum creatinine.