Research

A novel idea from GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) researcher Narine Sarvazyan, Ph.D., could send relief to countless patients around the world suffering from chronic venous insufficiency — a disease in which patients experience sluggish venous blood flow from the legs back to the

Prions — a blur of the words protein and infectious — are self-replicating clumps of proteins that can lead to a host of neurological disorders. The relationship between cholesterol metabolism and prion infection, however, also bears a striking resemblance to that of HIV and cholesterol.

Cardiac tissue is tricky stuff. Once it’s damaged it’ll never be the same. However, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) researcher Scott Shapiro, M.D., Ph.D., may have uncovered a gene that stimulates heart cells to fix themselves.

Dominic Raj, M.D., M.B.B.S., professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular biology, and director of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, took home the 2014 Distinguished Researcher Award as faculty, residents, and students from throughout GW’s School of Medicine and Health Science

Students and residents presented more than 300 posters at Medicine and Health Research Day. The scope of posters ranged from basic science research to translational science projects.  

The George Washington University (GW) School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) is pleased to announce that HIV/AIDS researcher Douglas F. Nixon, M.D., Ph.D., will be joining the faculty on Oct. 1, 2013, as the Ross Professor of Basic Science Research and chair of the Department of Microbiology…