GW Medical Center students and leadership will roll up their sleeves and get involved with community service projects, as part of the annual GW Medical Center Community Service Day. Students, residents, administrators and faculty will spread out across the District to offer a helping hand at a variety of non-profit organizations.
Using renewable solar energy and a process of solar conversion that he patented called Solar Thermal Electrochemical Photo (STEP) energy conversion, Dr. Stuart Licht is able to easily extract pure metal iron from the two prevalent iron ores, hematite and magnetite, without emitting carbon dioxide.
Online presence may hold the key to November elections.
Dr. Peter Hotez from The George Washington University is available to comment on the risk of water-borne diseases as a result of the recent flooding in Pakistan.
Scientists have discovered an accomplice in breast cancer – a master control switch with the power to set off a cascade of reactions orchestrated by a cancer-causing gene (or oncogene) named Wnt1. This executive molecule and its modus operandi are reported in back-to-back papers featured on the cover of the August 15 issue of Cancer Research.
In a paper in the Aug. 14 edition of The Lancet, authors representing The George Washington University, The Sabin Vaccine Institute, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Imperial College of London call for increased supplies of praziquantel for the African continent. Praziquantel is the only commercially available treatment for human schistosomiasis, a devastating neglected tropical disease that affects an estimated 200-600 million people worldwide, with the vast majority of cases occurring in Africa, producing a disease burden that could exceed that of malaria.
Rapidly growing sector of tourism capitalizes on destinations’ natural and cultural resources.
Sara Rosenbaum from The George Washington University is available to comment on the recent decision (Commonwealth of Virginia v Sebelius) regarding Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Experts are available to speak about immigration law and policy, healthcare and cultural and political history.
The George Washington University announced today that it has established a new Institute for Neuroscience. The institute, which is housed in GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will accelerate multidisciplinary research across GW’s schools and establish a new core facility for Neuroscience studies. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Ph.D., an internationally renowned neuroscientist formerly at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will serve as the institute’s founding director.
New research, published in the journal Development, by Dr. Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, professor of Pharmacology & Physiology and director of the newly formed GW Institute for Neuroscience, and his colleagues have identified the stem cells that generate three critical classes of nerve cells – olfactory receptors (ORNs), vomeronasal (VRNs) and gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons – that are responsible for enabling animals and humans, to eat, interact socially and reproduce.
A major discovery, led by researchers from The George Washington University Medical Center, promises to revolutionize the way scientists think about key aspects of cellular lifecycle and offers a new avenue for cancer researchers to explore in their quest to one day slow down the progression of cancer.
A new partnership will allow both institutions, their scholars, scientists and researchers to begin working together to increase contributions to science, share their knowledge with the public, and engage in the development and education of future generations.
Dr. Peter Hotez of The George Washington University Medical Center is available to comment on the recent outbreak of Dengue virus in the Florida Keys.
Children's National Medical Center, in partnership with The George Washington University Medical Center, has received a prestigious Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) from the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health.
Researchers from institutions across Washington, DC, led by Alan E. Greenberg, M.D., M.P.H., of The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, have been awarded an approximately $3M grant over five years from the National Institutes of Health to establish the District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC D-CFAR). The mission of the D-CFAR will be to provide scientific leadership and institutional infrastructure to promote HIV/AIDS research, and to develop the next generation of HIV/AIDS investigators in Washington, whose population has one of the country’s highest rates of HIV/AIDS infection.
Shortly after the April 20th explosion and fire on the drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf Coast, the emergency and specialty physicians of the George Washington University-Maritime Medical Access program (MMA) have been responding to an increase in calls from marine spill response crews participating in the cleanup effort in the Gulf Coast.
Chris Chiames brings more than 25 years of experience and success in corporate, government, and non-profit management to The George Washington University’s Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular Institute. Chiames started his new role at GW on June 21, 2010.
While most theories on aging to date emphasize the effects of stress, radiation, oxidation or caloric intake as major factors that control human lifespan by damaging DNA, a new theory states that within the DNA itself, are archaic retroviruses, much like HIV, which can damage DNA, and therefore possibly control the lifespan of humans.
Pregnant women with thyroid function test results in the upper half of the normal range have an increased chance of miscarriage, even when they lack thyroid-harming antibodies, according to a new study. The results, which the authors say show the need to change screening practices for pregnant women, will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting.
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