All Posts: education
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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
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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
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Georgetown Lombardi Young Scholars Gain Hands-On Science Experience
A team of eager third graders from Van Ness Elementary in southeast Washington, D.C., recently teamed up with volunteers from Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center for hands-on experiences with robotics, programming, biology and engineering designed to encourage students to think about careers in science and medicine.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Riegel Named Leader of Biomedical Graduate Education
Research oncologist Anna Tate Riegel, PhD, has been named senior associate dean of the university’s Biomedical Graduate Education program, home to a robust variety of PhD, master’s and certificate programs.
Category: Lombardi Stories
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Georgetown Lombardi Trainees Grateful to Director for His Commitment to Their Success
Georgetown Lombardi Director Dr. Louis M. Weiner’s commitment to his lab’s trainees represents how the cancer center’s larger mission of preventing, treating and curing cancers for its constituent populations must take place in parallel with training and education.
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