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Research Highlights

Laboratories in Ross Hall Renovated to Support Growing Research Community at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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Laboratories in Ross Hall Renovated to Support Growing Research Community at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences

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Research Highlights

Research Trends

Augmenting the research portfolio and elevating its prominence through enhanced quality and impact.

Research Trends

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Research Highlights

Core Facilities

These facilities offer a wide range of services, including cutting-edge technologies and high-end instrumentation coupled with technical support for research.

Core Facilities

Research, discovery, and translation to practice are at the core of the mission for the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. By accelerating research excellence, enhancing innovation, and advancing translation, our goal is to make discoveries and improve clinical care.

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Research Initiatives

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Core & Shared Facilities

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Emerging Research

The scientific workforce, composed of highly educated researchers and scientists-in training, clinician investigators, as well as skilled technical support staff, project managers, and core team members, together contribute to research discovery. Training the next generation of biomedical scientists is a key goal.

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Graduate Research & Education

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Postdoctoral Research

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Professional Development

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Medical Student Opportunities

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Undergraduate Research

Funding and support, obtained from federal and non-federal grants and contracts, private industry investment, and philanthropy, is essential to sustain our research programs. SMHS provides funding opportunities and strategies to gain support.

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Funding Opportunities

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Clinical and Translational Science Institute-CN

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Winning NIH Grant Support

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Awarded Grants

A variety of tools, from core facilities to research compliance, are available as institutional research infrastructure for both the new researcher as well as seasoned investigators.

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Campus Research Offices

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Policies and Forms

Research

Research Workforce

Funding & Support

Research Toolbox

Research News

Researchers Find that Combining Disparate Therapies Can Help to Treat Melanoma

The combination of photothermal and epigenetic therapies may help to maximize the therapeutic benefits for melanoma, and possibly other tumors, according to researchers from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS).

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Diet, Nutrition Have Profound Effects on Gut Microbiome

A new literature review from scientists at GW and NIST suggests that nutrition and diet have a profound impact on the microbial composition of the gut.

OncoMX Knowledgebase Enables Research of Cancer Biomarkers and Related Evidence

Researchers at GW published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology Clinical Cancer Informatics on the new knowledgebase OncoMX, which will improve the exploration and research of cancer biomarkers in the context of related evidence.