National Institutes of Health
Congratulations to Dara Baker, third-year MD student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), who was named as a fellow in the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) 2019–20 Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP).
Colin Young, PhD, received $2.4 million for his research on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Children's National Health System, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health have launched a clinical partnership devoted to treating allergic, immunologic, and infectious diseases in children.
Rising fourth-year medical student Steven Langerman was selected for the Medical Research Scholars Program at the National Institutes of Health.
Paul Marvar, PhD, at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, received a large grant from the NIH to study a possible link between post-traumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular disease.
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, in collaboration with a team of researchers at the George Washington University and the René Rachou Institute, have received funding from the National Institutes of Health for a Phase Ib clinical trial for a Schistosomiasis…
Shawneequa Callier, JD, MA, associate professor of clinical research and leadership, received the 2017 Genome Recognition of Employee Accomplishments and Talents Award from the National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
The National Institutes of Health is embarking on a phase II trial of a DNA-based Zika vaccine, with the goal of enrolling almost 2,500 participants at sites, including one in Brazil run by GW faculty, spread across countries where the virus has infected people.
Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences received a NIH grant to develop databases to normalize cancer genomics data.
Xiaoyan Zheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of anatomy and regenerative biology, recently received a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute of General Medical Sciences to study the underlying mechanisms of the Hedgehog receptor.