News and Breakthroughs

Faculty, staff, students and trainees celebrated global health, education and outreach during the 6th annual Global Health Education Day organized by the Center for Global Health Education.

A member of the NUCATS Institute-supported Biostatistics Collaboration Center and Northwestern University Data Analysis and Coordinating Center, Ciolino has long championed collaborative research.

After a summer at Northwestern, Leslei Lopez, a graduate student in Biology at Northeastern Illinois University has joined the SPEED Graduate Research and Career Accelerator Program at NEIU, an initiative designed to support graduate students through funding and professional development opportunities.

Three NUCATS Institute members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the oldest medical honor societies in the U.S.

Alumna credits immersion experience at Northwestern as instrumental to her academic development in both group and independent research experimentation.  

When Sarah Mitchell isn’t meticulously reviewing spreadsheets and budgets, you might find her live-streaming music on Twitch, entertaining viewers with her creative and charismatic charm. Her diverse interests and collaborative spirit are greatly appreciated by the Northwestern community.

Investigators are advancing research to support proactive responses in diagnosing and preventing chronic diseases. Across departments, scientists at Feinberg are pursuing new ways of testing to determine a person’s risk of developing chronic conditions.

Held in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood, the latest Learning Exchange continued ARCC’s mission, bridging community leaders, researchers, and healthcare professionals to communicate insights that advance equity-driven research.

Northwestern Medicine investigators have discovered how proteins expressed in umbilical cord blood at birth evolve during gestational development and could serve as biomarkers to inform new precision care strategies for infants born prematurely, according to a recent study.

The Center for Clinical Research (CCR) continues to enhance many service lines and recently announced the availability of an external FDA consultancy firm to guide Northwestern University investigators with FDA submission planning.

In 2021, Teresa Horton and David Victorson explored the idea of expanding a two-year old relationship between members of the Northwestern University community and Above and Beyond, a nonprofit, outpatient addiction treatment center on the West Side of Chicago.

The Breakthroughs podcast released 17 episodes in 2024, on topics ranging from biological age research to new insights in inflammation and microbiome science, as well as health equity research and community engagement efforts.

As an assistant professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Behavioral Medicine, Milkie Vu’s work serves not only as an academic assessment, but a mission to address health disparities affecting Asian American populations.

Postdoctoral fellows Brandon Applewhite, Divya Joshi, Silvia Karim, and Erika Martinez have been named as the first cohort of NUCATS Institute T32 scholars.

With new funding from NUCATS and the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, Teni Brown, MD, will explore pelvic floor disorders, which will effect an estimated 1 in 3 women in their lifetime