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Professor Makes Strides in Pancreatic Cancer Detection and Treatment

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. Jill Smith, MD, is working to improve the disease’s grim statistics. Over the past decade, Smith, a…

December 19, 2025

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Murray Named Oppenheim Endowed Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics

A celebration during Georgetown’s medical and dental alumni weekend marked the investiture of Ryan Murray, MD (G’10, M’14) as the William and Patricia Oppenheim Endowed…

November 21, 2025

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School of Medicine Class of 2028 Presents Summer Research

On October 29, students in the School of Medicine’s Class of 2028 presented their research projects at the 2025 Summer Research Scholars Capstone.…

November 5, 2025

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At New Awards Ceremony, IPN Students Celebrate Contributions to Community and Education

Doctoral students in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN) spend years together in classes, lab rotations and thesis research. This year, student leaders came up…

November 5, 2025

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National Academy of Medicine Inducts Merenstein

Georgetown’s Dan Merenstein, MD, was inducted into the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) on Saturday, October. …

October 29, 2025

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School of Medicine Students Among the 2025-2026 Cohort of Global Health Student Fellows

Among those selected to Georgetown University Global Health Institute’s 2025-2026 cohort of Global Health Student Fellows are medical students Sasha Afroz, Rhea Shetty and…

October 27, 2025

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Three Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Members Officially Named as D’Aniello Family Endowed Chairs

At an event that honored the generosity of a grateful patient and highlighted the power of the partnership between Georgetown University and MedStar Health, three Georgetown…

October 22, 2025

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Student Research Day Celebrates 40th Year at Georgetown

Student Research Day has given generations of biomedical scientists-in-training their start. This year, Student Research Day celebrated its 40th anniversary on Oct. 15 with a…

October 21, 2025

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Exploring the Symphony of the Human Mind

Shalin Bhatt (M’28), a second-year Georgetown medical student, says he couldn’t stop thinking about the question, leading him to develop a theory that was recently published…

October 8, 2025

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School of Medicine Demonstrates Commitment to Lowering Students’ Debt Burden Through Alumni Scholarship

The School of Medicine community is committed to having students graduate free of as much debt as possible, as one scholarship recently awarded to Simone Botts.…

October 1, 2025