Mar 15, 2024 | Frontpage, Impact, News, Translation
As is the case with many other diseases, a protein is thought to be a key driver of Parkinson’s disease (PD). Thanks to a two-year $700,000 grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF), researchers in Northwestern’s Chemistry of Life...
Apr 10, 2023 | Frontpage, News, Translation
In his current role as an early discovery scientist at Vividion Therapeutics (recently acquired by Bayer Pharmaceuticals) Northwestern alumnus Stefan Kathman, PhD (Chemistry ’16), draws from his interdisciplinary training as a participant in the Chemistry of Life...
Mar 10, 2023 | Biotech, Frontpage, News, Translation
For most scientists, a major drug discovery happens rarely, if ever, in a lifetime. However, for Northwestern’s Richard (Rick) B. Silverman, the Patrick G. Ryan/Aon Professor, lightning struck in a big way with pregabalin, a compound he discovered in his lab....
Feb 27, 2023 | Biotech, Frontpage, News, Translation
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered two ways to preserve diseased upper motor neurons that would normally be destroyed in ALS, based on a study in mice. Upper motor neurons initiate movement, and they degenerate in ALS. These neurons have a...
Nov 28, 2022 | Frontpage, News, Translation
The Comprehensive Transplant Center (CTC) at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and the Northwestern Proteomics Center of Excellence (PCE) have teamed up to address issues and improve the safety and efficiency of organ transplants. Although the...
Oct 26, 2022 | Event, Frontpage, News, Translation
Please join us on Tuesday, November 10, 2022, 11:00 – 1:00 p.m., for the 2022 CLP Core Expo. The Core Expo gives Feinberg physician-scientists and their labs the opportunity to learn about the instrumentation and services provided by CLP core facilities. ...
