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Responding to the need to reduce opioid overdose deaths in the District, School of Medicine students developed the Hoya Drug Overdose Prevention & Education (DOPE) Project.
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Typically, liver cancer has a low survival rate. A recent clinical trial of immunotherapy never before tried for the cancer delivered promising results.
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The student-driven free clinic in DC has been busy since it reopened in its new location at The Triumph in the Congress Heights neighborhood last September.
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Other News & Announcements
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Newport Receives High Honor from APA
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The American Psychological Association (APA) has selected Elissa Newport, PhD, as recipient of the 2020 APA Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. The award honors psychologists who have made distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to basic research in psychology. Newport, a neurology professor, is director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery.
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APS Recognizes Subramanian for Pediatrics Work
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The American Pediatric Society (APS) has added Siva Subramanian, MD, to its exclusive membership roster. APS members are “recognized child health leaders of extraordinary achievement who work together to shape the future of academic pediatrics.” Founded in 1888, the APS is the first and most prestigious academic pediatric organization in North America. Subramanian is professor of pediatrics and chief of neonatology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
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A number of enhancements and improvements have been made to GUFaculty360. The interface is cleaner, simpler and easier to navigate. Enhancements include the ability to auto-populate publications with PMID, integration ability with ORCID, and a featured publication section. The “new” GUFaculty360 is expected to be available on Monday, January 6, by 8:00 a.m.
Read more about the updates here. For assistance or to delegate, contact
GU360@georgetown.edu.
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Librarian Scott Dorris, associate director of research services for Dahlgren Memorial Library, reports that 168 Georgetown medical students were named on 128 publications (per PubMed MEDLINE) in 2019.
This is the breakdown by class:
Class of 2017: 2
Class of 2018: 2
Class of 2019: 56
Class of 2020: 67
Class of 2021: 29
Class of 2022: 9
Class of 2023: 2
MD/PhD: 1
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A clinical trial investigating the repurposed cancer drug nilotinib in people with Parkinson’s disease finds that it is reasonably safe and well tolerated. Georgetown University Medical Center researchers also report finding an increase in dopamine, the chemical lost as a result of neuronal destruction, and a decrease in neurotoxic proteins in the brain among study participants. Finally, they say nilotinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, potentially halts motor and non-motor decline.
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A team of neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center have found, in animal models, that they can “switch off” epileptic seizures. These findings provide the first evidence that while different types of seizures start in varied areas of the brain, they all can be controlled by targeting a very small set of neurons in the brain or their tendril-like neuronal axons.
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A study by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found that a
dding a medication used to treat epilepsy, bipolar disorder and migraines to a blood pressure medicine reversed some aspects of breast cancer in the offspring of mice at high risk of the disease because of the high-fat diet fed to their mothers during pregnancy. However, it had the opposite effect in the offspring whose mothers had not been fed a high-fat diet during pregnancy.
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Sandra Jackson, executive director of House of Ruth, will be honored as Georgetown’s 2020 John Thompson Jr. Legacy of a Dream Award recipient January 20 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The university presents the award annually to an inspirational emerging local leader at the free Let Freedom Ring! celebration on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
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Monday, January 6
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
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Thursday, January 9
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
A presentation by Wendy Walker, chief of the Asian Development Bank’s Social Development Thematic Group
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