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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Seifert Presented Second Consecutive MERIT Award

Hank Seifert, PhD, has received successive Method to Extend Research in Time Awards, an extremely rare honor for NIH-funded scientists.

Compassionate Care Winner Julian Schink, MD, takes a holistic approach to treating women with cancer.  Read more >

Hospitals Measuring Up for Medicare Reimbursement

A new study gives an early look at how hospitals are measuring up under the new, mandatory Hospital Inpatient Value-Based Purchasing Program that went into effect in October. Hospitals receive financial rewards or penalties according to achievement or improvement on several publicly reported quality measures.

Ronald D. Vale, PhD, professor and vice-chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California−San Francisco and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, will present "Building a Mitotic Spindle" at 1 p.m. tomorrow in Hughes Auditorium as part of the Ninth Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day.  Read more >

Announcements

Northwestern Medicine and the National Parkinson Foundation Host Town Hall Meeting

Scott Heller Honored by the Les Turner ALS Foundation

Events

Thurs, April 4

Ninth Annual Lewis Landsberg Research Day

Wed, April 17

Twist Out Cancer Presents Brushes With Cancer

More Events

Did you know?

The National Parkinson Foundation's Parkinson's Outcomes Project is the largest clinical study of Parkinson's disease with more than 6,000 patients. Findings are being presented during a Northwestern Medicine event on Saturday, April 6.

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