My Northwestern Medicine November 24, 2021

How Herpes Checks Into the Nervous System for Life

How Herpes Checks Into the Nervous System for Life

A new Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature has uncovered herpes’ sneaky strategy for infecting the nervous system, opening a path to long-needed vaccine development for the virus.

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Respiratory Virus Reprograms Airway Epithelial Cells

Respiratory syncytial virus infection during infancy results in metabolic reprogramming in epithelial cells lining the airway, according to a recent study.

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Northwestern Receives Grant to Support Equity in Biomedicine

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has been awarded a $550,000 grant to support the retention of early-career clinician investigators experiencing family caregiving challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NUPOC Students Create Teddy Bear Braces for Lurie Children’s Patients

On November 5, students in the Master of Prosthetics & Orthotics program through Northwestern’s Prosthetics-Orthotics Center constructed more than 50 braces for teddy bears gifted to pediatric patients at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.

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New Disaster Management and Community Emergency Preparedness Initiative

The Department of Emergency has launched a new initiative to prepare for emergency incidents, from a man-made or natural disaster to a mass event like the Bank of America Chicago Marathon.

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Knight Leads Development of Innovative New Heart Catheter

Bradley Knight, MD, worked with the manufacturer on the VeriSight Pro ICE Heart Catheter, which provides real-time 3-D images from inside the heart.

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