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Nofar Erlichman, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society for her project, “Adipocyte PD-L1 mediates the promotion of mammary tumor growth by the sympathetic…
The GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences welcomed the 2026 cohort of the Integrated Biomedical Sciences (IBS) PhD Program. Over the program’s 30-year history, GW has graduated 340 PhD who have gone on to careers across the biomedical sciences.
The GW Cancer Center announced the appointment of Katherine Chiappinelli, PhD, as Deputy Director for Basic Sciences. In this role, Chiappinelli will work with Edward Seto, PhD, associate center director for basic science at the GW Cancer Center, and the King Fahd Professor of Cancer Biology, to…