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Talk Highlights Potential of Integrative Medicine

By Carly Graf January 27, 2013

Amid the annual winter rush to get flu shots, some students are promoting other forms of medicine and health. Marya Pulaski (COL ’13) was one of several Georgetown students to join the Georgetown...

Medical Center Identifies New Tumor Treatment

By Penny Hung October 2, 2012

Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified a therapy for a rare type of lung tumor using a new cell technology that allows scientists to test different treatments on individual patients’...

GUMC, MedStar Launch Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery

By Pat Curran July 11, 2012

Georgetown University Medical Center announced the launch of a new neuroscience research center in a press release Thursday. The Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, a collaboration with MedStar National...

GUMC Picks One of Its Own for Dean Position

By Hiromi Oka October 21, 2011

The Georgetown University Medical Center tapped Jamie Padmore to become the associate dean for Graduate Medical Education and Educational Scholarship Monday. Padmore, previously a School of Medicine...

Medical Center Receives Grant

By Braden McDonald April 7, 2011

Georgetown University Medical Center received $28.9 million in federal research grants between early 2009 and September 2010, GUMC said in a statement released Tuesday. The funds have been allocated...

Med Center Partners With FDA

By Kelly Church March 18, 2011

The Georgetown University Medical Center announced a new program in collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 10, a venture designed to foster joint research concerning regulatory...

Medical Center’s Contract with District Cut by 10 Percent

By Sarah Kaplan January 25, 2011

Funding for a contract between Georgetown Medical Center and the city of Washington, D.C., has been slashed by 10 percent in an effort to close the District's $127 million budget gap. The cuts to the...

GUMC Finds CT Scan May Lower Cancer Fatalities

By Johanna Caldwell November 11, 2010

A study conducted in part at the Medical Center's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center found that screening former and current smokers with a CT scan can reduce lung cancer deaths by 20 percent, according...

GUMC Granted $7.5 Million

By Dawn Hu March 23, 2010

The National Cancer Institute awarded the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center a $7.5 million grant for the creation of a Center for Cancer Systems Biology to research new advanced methods to prevent and...

GUMC Breast Cancer Study Offers Hope for Treatment

By Stephen Szypulski March 4, 2010

Robert Clarke, interim director of the Biomedical Graduate Research Organization of the Georgetown University Medical Center, along with five other researchers, published the results of a new study on...

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