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Putting Health Care on Center Stage: Standing on the stage in George Washington University’s (GW’s) Jack Morton Auditorium in February, Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) debated the state of the U.S. health care system.
Every year, medical and physical therapy students vote on the educators who have had a significant impact on their education; the 2017 Golden Apple Award recipients were Zhiyong Han, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine; Marie Almira-Suarez, M.D., assistant professor
On the second day of the 22nd annual George Washington University (GW) Research Days, School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) students had a chance to show off their work outside the classroom to their peers and the GW community.
On an evening last summer, Francis L. Delmonico, M.D. ’71, and his wife, Janice, attended a fundraising dinner at the tony Beacon Hill residence of Martin Walsh, the mayor of Boston.
A straight line might be the shortest route between two points, but it’s not always the most desirable course. For J. Carl Craft, M.D.
With the support of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pedro A.
African trypanosomes are masters of disguise. Delivered through bites from the tsetse fly, once inside a host these parasites quickly disguise their appearance in a process called antigenic variation, all to avoid detection — and no parasite does it better.
Brent Etiz, a Stanford graduate and former Silicon Valley techie, was in need of a change.
SMHS donors provide “gift of life” to kidney patients in December 2016
As one of the world’s pre-eminent autism researchers, Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., has built a reputation that can open the doors to virtually any medical research institution — and the institution would consider itself fortunate to have him.