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Northwestern Researchers Connect Mind-Body for Better Health

WEBBy Glenn Jeffers. Jason Ong’s work has long included finding ways to treat sleep disorders without using drugs. So when a colleague brought up mindfulness during his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in the …

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Policy-focused research continues to explore pandemic’s social …

WEBAs the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its two-year mark, Northwestern researchers continue to confront the public health threat along various fronts.

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Office for Research leadership moves aim to boost impact, …

WEBThe Office for Research (OR) today announced several changes to its leadership team, enhancements that further strengthen OR’s support of Northwestern’s research enterprise, which continues to thrive and attract record levels of funding.The moves include staffing two existing senior positions — though restructuring the focus of …

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With new leadership hire, Northwestern research institute …

WEBThe Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH) at Northwestern University has named Jagadīśa-devaśrī Dācus, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., (he/him) as its new Associate Director.

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A Billion-Piece Puzzle

WEBThe first whole human genome cost about $2.7 billion to sequence in 2003. Today, anyone with $1,000 can learn about the entirety of their DNA, while $99 can offer clues on a person’s health and ancestry.

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IMPACT REPORT 2020

WEBits top-10 national ranking and marked another record-breaking year of sponsored research funding. Investigators attracted support totaling $887.3 million—a 26 percent increase over the past two years—making

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Understanding and Combating Virulent Viruses

WEBThe spread of the coronavirus from China is raising fears of a global pandemic. At Northwestern, multidisciplinary scientists are increasing our knowledge about various viruses and how they mutate and function.

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Found in Translation

WEBThe deaths were palpable. Just six years after the start of a medical career he envisioned would be filled with helping patients heal, Richard D’Aquila, instead, found himself at the forefront of the AIDS epidemic.What he did next continues to alter the lives of those living with the disease and its precursor, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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How Manmade Chemicals Alter Our Microbial World

WEBAt this month’s Science Café, McCormick’s Erica Hartmann reveals the life-or-death dynamics most of us can’t usually see — and why these matter for human health and the environment

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Proteomics Expert Named Interim Director of CLP

WEBA prominent Northwestern research hub is undergoing a leadership change. Effective Jan. 1, 2021, Neil Kelleher will become interim director of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP), as longtime director Thomas O'Halloran steps down.. Both scientists are global authorities in their fields: Kelleher is a renowned expert in the …

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Northwestern Researchers to Create ‘Common Standard’ for …

WEBA new, multimillion-dollar contract led by investigators at Northwestern’s Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences will be used to research, design, and validate a novel approach for assessing development in young children.The National Institutes of Health Infant and Toddler Toolbox is a five-year research project designed …

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IMPACT REPORT 2019

WEB(dermatology) was part of a cross-disciplinary team involving materials scientists, engineers, and pediatricians that developed pioneering flexible wireless sensors to replace the wire-based sensors that monitor babies in neonatal intensive

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Animal Care Excellence

WEBCurrently totaling about 150 staff members, CCM is dedicated to providing Northwestern researchers with exemplary and humane animal care and to promoting animal welfare and ensuring regulatory compliance. “We have expanded our skillset to meet the requests of investigators,” says Dr. Nicolette Zielinski-Mozny, scientist and laboratory

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Core Colloquium Highlights Research Impact of Shared Facilities

WEBAnnual event convened scientists and staff to celebrate key part of research ecosystem and honor UT Health San Antonio professor during Northwestern’s ‘150 Years of Women’

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2024: Research Communications

WEBThe Office for Research is pleased to announce that Ekaterina ("Katya") Klyachko will join the team, effective Jan. 15, 2024, as the new director of the Research Development unit. Katya brings to the role a distinguished career from Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, where she served as the inaugural Research Development Manager

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Zero-G Gut: The Inner Workings Of Outer Space Research

WEBNASA is building a plan for Americans to set foot on the moon again, and Martha Vitaterna’s gut instincts could play a central role.. For the past five years, Vitaterna, deputy director of Northwestern’s Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology (), has worked closely with the space agency to reveal new insights about how space affects the …

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TitleResearch Integrity Takes Center Stage: Research …

WEBNorthwestern’s Chicago campus was the site of a two-day national conference on research integrity this spring. The May 22-23 event welcomed senior institutional leaders from throughout the country to openly discuss strategies, resources, and tools for promoting research integrity for scientists and scholars.

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Research News And Notes: Spring 2019: Research …

WEBExploring Sex Risks. Sexual and gender minority adolescents in the United States are at high risk for negative sexual health outcomes like HIV and sexually transmitted infections.

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