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Northwestern Now Search committee established to find the next Northwestern president Committee of 36 members, representing the University’s many stakeholder groups, will seek broad input from across the Northwestern community The Presidential Search Committee has been appointed to advise the Board of Trustees in selecting the University’s next president, Board Chair J. Landis Martin announced today. Last month, President Morton Schapiro announced that he will conclude his tenure on Aug. 31...

Share this article Share this article BETHESDA, Md., April 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) welcomed five new directors, including a new president-elect, to its Board of Directors at the 2021 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting – A Virtual Experience. The new Board members will serve as advocates for the organization and will assist in shaping and implementing the mission, vision, and direction of the College. The five newly elected direc...

 E-Mail IMAGE: (left to right) Kimryn Rathmell, Bradley Reinfeld, Matthew Madden and Jeffrey Rathmell have discovered that immune cells -- not cancer cells -- are the major glucose consumers in the tumor... view more  Credit: Susan Urmy/VUMC Tumors consume glucose at high rates, but a team of Vanderbilt researchers has discovered that cancer cells themselves are not the culprit, upending models of cancer metabolism that have been developed and refined over the last 100 years. Instead...

New approach can advance medical AI algorithms, reduce risks to patient privacy Within the field of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning is an area of rapid and high-impact innovation in the healthcare industry. Being able to successfully train computers to perform medical tasks has extraordinary potential to improve patient care, increase access, and reduce costs. Researchers at UCLA have already developed AI systems that have had significant value in helping physicians more accurately ...

March 1 update: The University of Iowas Reimagining Campus Safety action committee is no longer requiring a HawkID in order to provide feedback on the groups prototypes.  The group is accepting feedback until 5 p.m Friday. To learn more about the prototypes and to submit feedback, visit their website: StudentLife.uiowa.edu/initiatives/reimagining-campus-safety/feedback. This story was originally published on Thursday, Feb. 18. Read the original report below: Members of the University of Iowa...

School of Medicine Class of 2021 students match early in competitive military and urology programs By Kylee Denesha Michelle Shabo Six School of Medicine Class of 2021 students took part in early match programs and recently learned where they will serve their residencies. Two pursued military matches and four chose specialties outside of the National Residency Matching Program general match, which takes place on Friday, March 19. “This has been a residency match year t...

IOWA CITY — Iowa’s public universities for years have touted the billions they bring to the state through research and innovation; student, visitor and alumni spending; new jobs; and inbound migration — citing those boons in seeking improved state support. But the Legislature has continued to cut appropriations and, with campus leaders again re-upping pleas for more money, GOP lawmakers this session are seeking more evidence and oversight of the Board of Regents’ boasts through propose...

Dr. Terence S. Dermody is the Vira I. Heinz Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dermody received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his M.D. degree from Columbia University. He completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York and fellowships in infectious diseases and molecular virology at Brigham and...

Jacob “Jake” Files COVID-19, which has killed 1.7 million people worldwide, does not follow a uniform path.  Many infected patients remain asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Others, especially those with comorbidities, can develop severe clinical disease with atypical pneumonia and multiple system organ failure.  Since the first cases were reported in December 2019, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has surged into a pandemic, with cases and deaths still mounting. Ongoing observa...

Study reveals the role of SETD2 protein in cancer cells, cell migration, and autophagy SETD2 is a protein well known as a chromatin remodeler, one that helps turn genes on or off by modifying histone proteins in the nucleus of the cell. When researchers discovered that SETD2 is mutated or lost in several cancer types, most commonly a type of kidney cancer called clear-cell renal cell carcinoma, all eyesCytoskeleton turned toward SETD2 function in the nucleus of the cell to explain these cancers...