Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
Hear Jed Fahey, assistant professor in the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and director of the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chemoprotection Center, as he discusses his research involving the beneficial compound sulforphane, found in cruciferous vegetables (broccoli in particular). Food Sleuth Radio, Jed Fahey Interview: https://beta.prx.org/stories/206629
The 8th Annual Cardiovascular Research Retreat organized by David Kass, director of the Institute of CardioScience took place on Friday, May 19 with lectures on cutting-edge cardiovascular disease science. Featured speakers included Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, from University of Pennsylvania, Samia Mora, MD, MHS from Harvard Medical School, as well as Narutoshi Hibino, MD, PhD and Douglas(...)
David Kass, professor in Cardiology, and Jay Pasricha, professor in Gastroenterology, were named recipients of the Johns Hopkins Clinician Innovator Mentor Award at the 2017 Design Day hosted by Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design on Tuesday, May 9. This award recognizes clinicians who have made significant progress in developing new health care solutions that(...)
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is sponsoring a lunch and learn lecture series to disseminate new methodologies related to clinical trials. The initial lecture, “Improving Precision by Adjusting for Prognostic Baseline Variables in Randomized Trials, Without Regression Model Assumptions,” will be Thursday, May 25 from 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m. in(...)
Guests can tour the brand-new laboratory and meet faculty and staff who are trailblazing the field of genomics to improve our understanding and treatment of human disease, both inherited and acquired. WHEN: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m WHERE: 1812 Ashland Ave., Suite 200 (on the second floor). Refreshments will be served(...)
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and nine other major peer institutions (The University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, Columbia University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Texas System, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Boston Children’s Hospital and The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its San Francisco campus) have entered(...)
The Johns Hopkins Women’s Health Research Group will host the Women’s Health Research Symposium on Tuesday, May 9 to showcase research collaborations across Johns Hopkins’ schools of medicine, public health and nursing. This year’s symposium will mark the group’s official transition to becoming the Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex and Gender Research, whose(...)
A research group led by Linda Resar, professor in the Division of Hematology, recently discovered a gene protein called HMGA1 that is critically important for maintaining stem cells in the gut. Watch the video below or see the public release to find out more. For the full article published in Nature Communications, visit: http://rdcu.be/rFKh
Centro SOL and the Urban Health Institute invite you to the 3rd Annual Latino Health Conference entitled "The Values of Latino Health Research during Changing Times" for a discussion of the relevance of an inclusive research agenda at this moment in U.S. political history. Featuring Joshua Sharfstein, associate dean public health practice, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg(...)
Gordon Tomaselli, professor and chief of the Division of Cardiology, was named the next editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Investigation at the ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting in Chicago last week. Gordon will serve a five-year term with an editorial board of peer scientists based here at Hopkins. Deputy editors include Rexford Ahima and Arturo Casadevall. The JCI is(...)