Spring/Summer 2024

Learn about the recent achievements of Feinberg School of Medicine faculty and leaders.

Feinberg honored the MD Class of 2024 during the medical school’s 165th commencement ceremony held in the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier on May 13.

Craig M. Crews, PhD, the John C. Malone Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology and a professor of Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Management at Yale University, presented on the future of targeted protein degradation to a packed crowd in the Hughes Auditorium on Northwestern’s Chicago campus.

Mark C. Hersam, PhD, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and director of the Materials Research Center at Northwestern University has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD, and Shana Kelley, PhD, have been named 2023 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Four Feinberg faculty members have been inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation’s oldest medical honor societies composed of more than 3,000 physician-scientists, and three additional Feinberg faculty members have also been honored with the ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award, which recognizes physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty…

Jeffrey Gordon, MD, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who is often referred to as the “father of microbiome research,” is the recipient of the 2024 Mechthild Esser Nemmers Prize in Medical Science at Northwestern University.

Learn about the recent achievements of Feinberg School of Medicine faculty and leaders.

Feinberg’s chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society welcomed 40 new members during a ceremony on March 12, recognizing the inductees’ outstanding educational achievement and significant contributions to medicine.