2023 Breakthroughs Issues
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DECEMBER 2023
Inside This Issue
- Evolving Telehealth Research and its Place in Healthcare Delivery
- Feinberg Investigators Recognized on 2023 ‘Highly-Cited’ List
- Utilizing Machine Learning to Improve Clinical Care and Scientific Research
- Supporting and Mentoring Research Administration
- Pursuing Translational Cancer Research

NOVEMBER 2023
Inside This Issue
- Feinberg Scientists Make New Discoveries at the Forefront of Food Allergy Research
- Helping Faculty Clearly Communicate Their Research and Expertise
- Propelling Equitable, Early-Life Identification and Prevention of Mental Health Risk
- Providing Clinical and Research Nursing Support
- Investigating How Glial Cells Regulate the Central Nervous System

OCTOBER 2023
Inside This Issue
- Understanding How Sex-Based Differences Impact Health Outcomes
- Rise Program Empowers Medical Students Pursuing Research
- Studying and Improving Parental Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Leading and Supporting the Facilitation of Ground-breaking Research
- Training to Lead in Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation

SEPTEMBER 2023
Inside This Issue
- Feinberg Investigators Identify How a Residential Neighborhood Can Impact Health
- Research Day 2023 Celebrates Scientific Discoveries and Collaboration
- Feinberg Receives Record-Breaking Research Funding in 2023
- Expanding Access to Mental Health Resources and Disability Services for Children and Families
- Providing Regulatory Support for Clinical Research
- Translating Insights from Datasets to Improve Health

AUGUST 2023
Inside This Issue
- Advancing Our Understanding Behind the Mechanisms of Pain
- Mary McDermott, MD, and Navdeep Chandel, PhD, Receive Awards
- Improving the Diagnosis and Treatment Related to Maternal-Child Health Outcomes
- Translating Insights from Datasets to Improve Health
- Developing Center Resources to Support Research

June 2023
Inside This Issue
- State-of-the-Art Facilities at the Core of Feinberg Discovery
- What Does the New Frontier in Biomedicine Look Like?
- Developing Individualized Therapies and Enhancing Clinical Trials for Cancer Patients
- Understanding How Cancer Evades the Immune System
- Supporting Sponsored Projects for Investigators

May 2023
Inside This Issue
- Feinberg Research Drives Breast Cancer Treatments Forward
- Faculty Inducted into Prestigious Honorary Societies
- Investigating Transcriptional Regulation in Cancer Genomics
- Identifying New Organelle Dynamics and Elucidating Their Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Contributing to Scientific Discovery in the Lab for Translational Neuropsychology

April 2023
Inside This Issue
- Northwestern Investigators Lead Global Research on Antimicrobial Resistance
- CRISPR Pioneer Delivers Inaugural Kimberly Prize Lecture
- Investigating the Pathologic Correlations of Neurodegenerative Disorders and Aging
- Pursuring Further Exploration of the Unknown
- Using Neuroimaging to Understand Cognitive Aging

March 2023
Inside This Issue
- How ChatGPT Has, And Will Continue to, Transform Scientific Research
- Medical School Faculty Names AAAS Fellows
- New Director of the Mesulam Center: Robert Vassar, PhD
- Pursuing Further Exploration of the Unknown
- Understand the Role of Long-Lived Mitochondrial Proteins

February 2023
Inside This Issue
- Studying the Lasting Impact of COVID-19
- Medical School Establishes New Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience
- Postdoctoral Investigator Pursues Research on Microbiome
- Understanding and Improving Variant Interpretation in Minoritized and Underserved Populations
- Investigating Endothelial Cytoskeletal Dynamics