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Lombardi Researchers Study Cancer Genes

By William Zhu February 19, 2016

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and the Innovation Center for Biomedical Informatics published a study Feb. 3 indicating a relationship between the Ly6 family of genes, which...

GUMC, GULC Study Oral Health With Grant

By Gaia Mattiace February 4, 2016

Associate Dean of Community Health and Outreach at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Dr. Lucile Adams-Campbell received a $1.2 million grant from the George E. Richmond Foundation in...

GUMC Professor Awarded For Drug Discovery

By Jessie Yu December 8, 2015

Director of the Drug Discovery Program at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Milton Brown received the annual Percy L. Julian Award for his work in new drug discovery and testing against...

GUMC Professors Analyze Gun Violence In New Book

By Molly Cooke December 8, 2015

Georgetown University School of Medicine clinical professors of psychiatry Liza H. Gold and Robert I. Simon argued that links between mass gun violence and mental health are exaggerated in their book...

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The Mind-Body Medicine Program, which launched 13 years ago in the Georgetown University Medical Center, has expanded to undergraduates over the past few years, catering students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Foreign Service who experience stress.

Mindfulness Meditation, Stress Relief Program Expands

By Owen Eagan November 20, 2015

"There is nothing that I am prouder of," Georgetown University Medical Center professor Aviad Haramati said with a smile, recalling his role in the founding of the Mind-Body Medicine Program 13 years...

GUMC Debuts $10M Classroom Renovation

GUMC Debuts $10M Classroom Renovation

By Marina Pitofsky November 3, 2015

The new W. Proctor Harvey Clinical Teaching Amphitheater at the Georgetown University Medical Center, a space that will host courses with more hands-on, clinical curricula, officially opened Oct. 23. The...

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Movement Disorders Program Director Fernando Pagan co-led the successful GUMC clinical trial for a drug to reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

GUMC Parkinson’s Trial Shows Promise

By Ian Scoville October 27, 2015

Two Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have discovered a drug that could reverse symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, including cognition and motor function loss. Georgetown’s Laboratory...

Lombardi Receives NIH Grant

By Matthew Larson October 20, 2015

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health awarded The Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences...

GUMC Appoints Dean of Diversity, Inclusion

By Lucy Pash October 2, 2015

The Georgetown University Medical Center named Susan Cheng the first senior associate dean of diversity and inclusion in August. She is heading a new office focusing on fostering diversity across the institution. Formerly...

GUMC Research Leads to Alzheimer’s Breakthrough

By Patricja Okuniewska September 18, 2015

Georgetown University Medical Center Memory Disorders Program Director Scott Turner worked as the principal investigator in the largest ever nationwide clinical trial of an Alzheimer’s disease drug...

Alum Finalist For Private Mars Mission

By Gaia Mattiace April 24, 2015

When Leila Zucker (MED ’07) received an email from her husband about a possible trip to Mars, she did not think twice as she filled out an application. The program Zucker applied for, Mars One, is...

GUMC, GULC Aid Refugees

By Daniel Silbert April 17, 2015

As refugees flee their home countries, they search for safety from persecution. But even after reaching another country, their journeys are not over. Instead, they face an arduous process of applying...

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