All Posts: biomedical education

• With a New ‘Map’ of Cells, Georgetown Cancer Researchers Chart a Course to More Effective Treatment

  Faculty and students from Biomedical Graduate Education programs, the School of Medicine and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are developing a new technique that could revolutionize the way cancers are tracked and treated. Instead of invasive surgical biopsies or time-consuming scans, clinicians could use simple blood tests to determine where the cancer is and whether it is responding to treatment.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, biomedical research, cancer, cancer research, cancer screening, education, liquid biopsy

• Tumor Biology Student Sidharth Jain Combines Discovery and Care on MD/PhD Path

  As an MD/PhD in Tumor Biology student, Sidharth Jain works between two worlds of health science. On the PhD side, lab research, data analysis and discovery; on the MD side, patients fighting for their lives.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, biomedical research, education, liquid biopsy, Tumor Biology Program

• Genomic Medicine Gets Personal with New Online Course

  On June 4, 2014, more than 20,000 people will be introduced to the most personal of medicine — treatment based on an individual’s genome — and all that means for health and society through Georgetown University Medical Center’s first massive open online course (MOOC).

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: biomedical education, community outreach, ICBI