Research
On the cover page of the immunology textbook Victoria Shanmugam used in medical school was a quotation that resonated with the young Londoner: “Immunology is the invention of the devil, who is making it up as he goes along because he is not too clear about this stuff either.”
After a nationwide search, the George Washington University selected Kevin Pelphrey, Ph.D., as the new director of the Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute (AND Institute) at GW and as professor of pharmacology and physiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
Clay Siegall, Ph.D. ’88, was 19 years old when his father was diagnosed with brain cancer. “Life changes as you know it,” Siegall says. The University of Maryland premedical student — one of five siblings — stepped in on occasion to help, accompanying his father to the oncologist.
Michael Bukrinsky, M.D., Ph.D., professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and developmental core director of the DC Center for AIDS Research, received an R01 grant from the National Institute of Medicine for his research on HIV/…
When it comes to the importance of teamwork and trust, no area of education rivals the clinical health care setting. At GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), executive coaching and simulation have worked to promote the interprofessional education of health care students.
Researchers at GW’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) have partnered with La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company to address a condition called catecholamine-resistant hypotension, or CRH, in which blood pressure drops to dangerously low levels and is unresponsive to currently available treat
For future emergency medicine physician Travis Hase, educating health care providers about the devastating impact of prescription opioid misuse, overdose, and addiction is a true passion.
The George Washington University (GW) recently opened the doors to its newest campus facility at the corner of 22nd and H streets: the 500,000-square-foot, multidisciplinary Science and Engineering Hall (SEH).
An interdisciplinary, city-wide consortium of researchers led by Alan E. Greenberg, M.D.