All Posts: biomedical research

• 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

• Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell

  WASHINGTON (November 25, 2020) — Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell’s energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity, radiation exposure and other factors, according to investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. These findings are part […]

  Category: News Release Tags: biological effects of space travel, biomedical research, cancer research, mitochondrial function, radiation, space research