News and Breakthroughs

TL1 Trainee Sarah Walker, PhD, utilizes machine learning to help mitigate pediatric shock. Her research in personalized intervention works to predict accurate fluid administration to children in need.

Bethany Ekesa, associate director of Feinberg’s Sponsored Project and Research Catalysts (SPARC) team, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Jean E. Shedd University Citizenship Award.

The NUCATS Institute recently awarded three Translational Science Pilot Awards to teams studying the implementation of peanut allergy interventions, the sustainability of a group-based intimate partner violence intervention, and the identification of ways to better diagnose and treat patients with heart failure in a large network of community health centers.

Nicole Woitowich, PhD, research assistant professor in the Department of Medical Social Sciences, has been named the new executive director of the NUCATS Institute.

KL2 Scholar Hadie Makinde’s research addresses the impact of monocyte — a type of white blood cell — populations in scleroderma, an autoimmune disorder that affects the skin and internal organs. Her long-term research goal is to develop a precision medicine approach for the 300,000 Americans who suffer from the disease.

Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, MD, MPH ’81, GME ’75, GME ’76, A trailblazing pediatrician, researcher, and public health advocate whose career at Northwestern spanned nearly 44 years, passed away recently at age 74.

This year’s Northwestern Medicine Academic Medical Center and Brinson Foundation Nursing and Allied Health Research and Evidence-Based Practice Symposium marked a return to in-person learning.

From 1999 through 2020, Black Americans experienced more than 1.6 million excess deaths and more than 80 million excess years of life lost compared to white Americans, according to a recent study published in JAMA.

As a Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine graduate, MSCI recipient, and KL2 fellow, Ravi Patel, MD, MSCI, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, has thrived at Northwestern, exploring career development and educational opportunities from the NUCATS Institute along the way.

Mohammad Hosseini, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow researching ethics and integrity in the Department of Preventive Medicine, is Northwestern’s first inductee into the Global Young Academy (GYA).

With degrees in engineering and Spanish, De'Andra Graham is self-proclaimed foodie and Chicago native who has acquired a special taste for community building

Claire Powers recently joined NUCATS as its first coordinator of Pilot and Voucher programming.

Three current and past NUCATS Institute KL2 scholars recently participated in a TED Talk-style event at MATTER, a Chicago-based organization that supports healthcare startups at all stages of growth.

A new tool developed by the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities (ARCC) aims to support researchers and community-academic research partnerships in learning and implementing strategies to integrate racial equity and anti-racism into their partnerships and research design, conduct, leadership, and impact.