Category: Features

Rewiring Psychiatry: Inside a Bold Push to Transform Mental Health Science

Research into the neuroscience of mental health could help create personalized approaches and more effective treatments.
Meeting Patients Close to Home

The opening of the Bronzeville Outpatient Center makes world-class healthcare more accessible.
The Immune Frontier: How Northwestern’s Center for Human Immunobiology is Redefining Disease Research

The Center for Human Immunobiology explores new scientific innovations that translate into treatments—and potential cures—for immune-regulated diseases.
Advancing Survivorship, Strengthening Pediatrics

More than 80 percent of childhood cancers are curable, but survivors face a high risk of secondary cancers as adults. Tara Henderson, MD, MPH, investigates the long-term effects of treatment while aiming to find safer cures.
Engineering the World’s Smallest Cardiac Pacemaker

World’s smallest pacemaker is set to be a game changer for medical technology.
It’s in Your Blood

Next-generation blood tests could offer patients both a risk assessment for certain conditions and potential new targets for therapies.
Bringing the Fundamentals of Clinical Care Back to the Bedside

As the inaugural director of the Center for Bedside Medicine, Brian Garibaldi, MD, MEHP, seeks to reinvent the doctor-patient encounter for the 21st century.
Breathing New Life

Northwestern Medicine team provides life-saving cancer treatment to expectant mother.
Decoding the Epigenome

Investigators in Feinberg’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics work to understand influences on gene expression — with new drug treatments on the horizon
Disease Prevention Champion

Mercedes Carnethon, PhD, takes the baton as the new chair of Preventive Medicine