JUNE 2025 NEWSLETTER
The newsletter of the Feinberg School of Medicine Research Office
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Taking the Science to Market: Start-ups at Feinberg |
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Every year at Feinberg a handful of start-up companies are born from discoveries in the lab. Paperwork is filed for hundreds of inventions and patents; patents are issued, and the process for optioning and licensing technology through Northwestern’s Innovations and New Ventures Office (INVO) can be the launching point for scientists to bring their research to commercialization. |
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Heinemann Receives 2025 Mentor of the Year Award |
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Feinberg’s Medical Faculty Council honored Allen Heinemann, PhD, professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and director of the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research at Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, of the 2025 Mentor of the Year award. |
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Abstract Submissions for Research Day |
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The abstract submission portal will open on July 24, and will be available on this webpage at that time. Submissions will be accepted until August 7 at midnight, or until capacity is reached. Mark your calendar for Research Day on Thursday, September 2025. |
Faculty ProfileUnderstanding How Behavioral and Psychological Factors Influence Physical Health and LongevityDaniel Mroczek, PhD, is professor and chief of Determinants of Health in the Department of Medical Social Sciences. His research focuses on how behavioral and psychological characteristics can predict physical health, cognitive aging, dementia and mortality risk. |
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Student ProfilePursuing Health Services Research and Informing PolicyAlexandra Harris is a PhD student in the Health Services Integrated Program (HSIP) at Feinberg. She studies health economics, particularly as it pertains to pharmaceutical pricing and understanding the effect of healthcare market consolidation on patient outcomes. |
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Staff ProfileEnhancing Department WorkflowsEric Gustafson is the financial coordinator for the Department of Medical Social Sciences at Feinberg. In his role, Gustafson uses his skills in automation to streamline data entry and management to support the department’s efforts. |
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Research in the NewsCNN, June 23 Wall Street Journal, June 15 US News & World Report, June 4 |
NUCATS CornerRecruitment, Retention Consultation Service LaunchedEffective research requires thoughtful strategies to reach and retain participants of all backgrounds. Even well-designed research can fall short without comprehensive and engaging recruitment and retention approaches. The new NUCATS Recruitment and Retention (R&R) Consultation Service — co-led by Kathryn Macapagal, PhD, and Andrés Alvarado Avila — is here to help you optimize your R&R procedures to reach your recruitment goals throughout the research process. |
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Breakthroughs PodcastCan a Single Session Impact Mental Health for Teens? with Jessica Schleider, PhDIn this episode, Schleider explains how she is using this approach to scale single-session interventions (SSIs) to reach more people in need of mental health services. |
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Breakthroughs PodcastMedical Research Funding at Risk with Rod Passman, MDIn this episode, Passman discusses how his clinical trial is impacted by the federal funding freeze and what this means for the future of his research and other studies like it. |
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Galter LibrarySources for Cross-Discipline Literature SearchesTopics in medicine do not always fit neatly under the biomedical umbrella. While PubMed may be the go-to resource for medical research for many, the landscape for health-related research is vast.There are several methods for locating cross-discipline literature, which range from searching multidisciplinary databases that index across subject areas, to non-biomedical, health-related databases and finally to exploring specialized databases that are non-health discipline-specific. |
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High Impact ResearchDu H, Qiu R, Lou X, Jansen SAH, Sai H, Wang Y, Markvoort AJ, Meijer EW, Stupp SI. Mapping in situ the assembly and dynamics in aqueous supramolecular polymers. Nature Communications. May 2025; 16(1):4837-4837. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60138-0 Eskander RN, Sill MW, Beffa L, Moore RG, Hope JM, Musa FB, Mannel RS, Shahin MS, Cantuaria GH, Girda E, Lokich E, Kavecansky J, Leath CA, Gien LT, Hinchcliff EM, Lele SB, Landrum LM, Backes F, O'Cearbhaill RE, Baghdadi TA, Hill EK, Thaker PH, John VS, Welch S, Fader AN, Powell MA, Aghajanian C. Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer: overall survival and exploratory analyses of the NRG GY018 phase 3 randomized trial. Nature Medicine. May 2025; 31(5):1539-1546. doi:10.1038/s41591-025-03566-1 Filipp M, Ge ZD, DeBerge M, Lantz C, Glinton K, Gao P, Smolgovsky S, Dai J, Zhao YY, Yvan-Charvet L, Alcaide P, Weinberg SE, Schiattarella GG, Hill JA, Feinstein MJ, Shah SJ, Thorp EB. Myeloid Fatty Acid Metabolism Activates Neighboring Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Promote Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction. Circulation. May 2025; 151(20):1451-1466. doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.124.070248 Karpowicz BM, Ali YH, Wimalasena LN, Sedler AR, Keshtkaran MR, Bodkin K, Ma X, Rubin DB, Williams ZM, Cash SS, Hochberg LR, Miller LE, Pandarinath C. Stabilizing brain-computer interfaces through alignment of latent dynamics. Nature Communications. May 2025; 16(1):4662-4662. doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59652-y |
Featured CoreNorthwestern Medicine Enterprise Data WarehouseThe Northwestern Medicine Enterprise Data Warehouse (NMEDW) is a joint initiative across the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Healthcare Corporation. Its mission is to create a single, comprehensive, and integrated repository of all clinical and research data sources on the campus to facilitate research, clinical quality, healthcare operations and medical education. Services
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Funding Opportunities
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NIH NewsNIH is Temporarily Extending Eligibility for Some Mentored Career Development Awards NIH has issued a temporary policy exception to NIH GPS Section 12.3.7 to allow individuals whose mentored career development awards prematurely ended on or after January 1, 2025 to reapply for future awards. This exception is effective immediately and will remain in effect until July 31, 2026. It is applicable to:
Other GPS requirements remain unchanged. Investigators should include in applications a justification addressing the need for additional mentored research training and career development. See NOT-OD-25-115 for more details. |
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