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MARCH 20, 2013– GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER (GUMC) researchers for the first time have discovered that veterans who suffer from &"Gulf War Illness” have physical changes in their brains that may account for pain from actions as simple as putting on a shirt. Brain scans of 31 vet ... Read More

FIRST EVENT FOCUSES ON POST TRAUMATIC STRESS AND RELATED CONCERNS The First United Methodist Church of Hyattsville (FUMC), in conjunction with academic partners at Georgetown University, proudly announces that it is the co-recipient of a Community Engagement and Research Partnership minigrant from t ... Read More

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis W. Sullivan to Give Keynote WASHINGTON (April 10, 2013) – The 2013 Symposium on U.S. Healthcare at Howard University has announced Dr. Louis W. Sullivan, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, as its keynote speaker on Wednesday ... Read More

Surgeon Thomas Fishbein, MD, is on the cusp of solving a significant problem that he and all other transplant doctors face — the failure of transplanted abdominal organs. As executive director of the MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute (MGTI), one of the nation’s leaders in intestina ... Read More

Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown announced recently the designation of the State’s first Health Enterprise Zones (HEZ) in five locations across the state. MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital (MSMH), one of the five HEZs, submitted a proposal for the Greater Lexington Park area that seeks to im ... Read More

After our third and most competitive application cycle, the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (GHUCCTS) announces the appointment of Ana Barac and Peter Turkeltaub as KL2 Scholars. These two new awardees and their projects are emblematic of our program obj ... Read More

The theme of the 2012 Georgetown Women in Medicine (GWIM) annual fall awards ceremony was the recognition of female faculty who have demonstrated a devotion to the ideals of academic medicine. GWIM honored recently appointed, promoted and tenured faculty, and presented two named awards and an achiev ... Read More

The question reflected Kristrinah Ayala’s increasing desperation, and her attempt to make sense of her 18-month ordeal. &"I’m a therapist,” she told the Washington rheumatologist who began treating her in the fall of 2011. &"Is it possible that this problem is all in my head?&rdquo ... Read More

Cardio-oncology is a novel interdisciplinary field that focuses on the cardiovascular safety of antitumor therapies.  Major advances in oncology have resulted in numerous effective targeted therapies, as well as improved outcomes, over the past decades. Yet the problem of anthracyclineinduced c ... Read More

LETTER OF INTENT DUE (REQUIRED): October 15, 2012 APPLICATION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 3, 2012 ANTICIPATED NOTIFICATION DATE: January 7, 2013 Purpose of this Request for Application (RFA) This Request for Applications intends to support development of sustainable partnerships between academic r ... Read More

The National Institutes of Health has awarded an R01 grant in the amount of $1.9 million over five years to Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) in support of Victoria Shanmugam, M.D., assistant professor of medicine. The grant, awarded by the NIH’s National Institute for Nursing Resea ... Read More

Request for the GHUCCTS KL2 Post-Doctoral Scholars Award Application Salary support up to $90,000 per year + fringe and Project Support up to $40,000 per year (for up to 3 years) Funding Period Year 1: DEC. 2012 – NOV. 2013│Year 2: DEC. 2013 – NOV., 2014 Year 3: DEC. 2014 – NOV. 20 ... Read More

Georgetown University Medical Center Office of the Executive Vice President for Health Sciences and Executive Dean I am pleased to announce that the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, a part of the NIH, has awarded a $6.1 million grant over the next five years to Georgeto ... Read More

The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical Translational Science (GHUCCTS) announces the establishment of our Master of Science degree in Clinical and Translational Research (MS-CTR) based at Georgetown University. This new graduate program will provide a rigorous grounding in foundation ... Read More

Washington, DC—The Clinical and Translational Science Institute-Children’s National (CTSI-CN) and the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) have received a $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center ... Read More

Shaunagh Browning assumes the position of President of the International Association of Clinical Research Nurses in January 2012. The International Association of Clinical Research Nurses (IACRN) is a professional nursing organization dedicated to supporting educational and professional needs ... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Millions of Americans suffer from wounds that don’t heal, and while most are typically associated with diabetes, new research has identified another possible underlying cause – autoimmune diseases. The finding represents an unappreciated link that could lead to import ... Read More

Dear Colleagues: The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS), Translational Technologies Resources component (TTR) is pleased to announce the availability of funding to support the use of existing TTR resources to generate preliminary data for grant s ... Read More

Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science also launches new website to complement its goal of transforming health care and preventive practices in the Washington, DC area.   WASHINGTON -- Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational S ... Read More

The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical & Translational Science Research Education, Training and Career Development Core Announces:  2011 KL2-Post- Doctoral Scholars   Drs. Jason G. Umans and Renee R. Jenkins, Directors of the KL2 Scholars Award Program, formally announc ... Read More

Using the HFIR Bio-SANS, researchers for the first time successfully characterized the earliest structural formation of the disease type of  the protein "Huntingtin" that creates havoc in Huntington's disease. Neutron scattering allowed researchers to see inside the later-stage fibrils and dete ... Read More

WASHINGTON -- Clinical trials conducted at Howard University College of Medicine and 12 other medical institutions across the nation have discovered a treatment that dramatically reduces pain, inflammation and hospitalization time and eases other symptoms in young children suffering from sickle cell ... Read More

The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) Pilot and Collaborative Program (PCSP) has three stated goals (a) to engage junior and senior investigators in multidisciplinary collaborative and pilot studies that will advance clinical translational science ... Read More

Focus on Advancement New England Journal of Medicine Publication In research published in the March 24 New England Journal of Medicine, MedStar Health Research Institute investigators, Robert E. Ratner, MD, and Stephen C. Clement, MD, Georgetown University Hospital, participated in a multi-site, r ... Read More

The aim of this project is to utilize Oak Ridge National Laboratory high performance computing resources to perform virtual docking of a massive chemical database against HDAC enzyme targets, with the goal of prioritizing compounds for experimental validation. Abstract A task of this project is to ... Read More

WASHINGTON (March 10) -- Howard University and Howard University Health Sciences host a special five-day lecture course on stem cells in cancer from Monday, March 14, to Friday, March 19, in the Tower Auditorium of Howard University Hospital. The free course, "The Frontiers in Stem Cells and Regene ... Read More

The Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical & Translational Science (GHUCCTS) announces the KL2 Post- Doctoral scholar awardees for year-1.  Drs. Jason G. Umans and Renee R. Jenkins, Directors of the KL2 Scholars Award Program, formally announce the 2010 award ... Read More

A multi-year study conducted by MedStar Health Research Institute investigators, led by Principal Investigator, Nawar Shara, Ph.D., with MHRI researchers, Barbara V. Howard, Ph.D., Hong Wang, MD, Marieta Pehlivanova, and Jason Umans, MD, examined the relationship between kidney disease and cardiovas ... Read More

WASHINGTON (Dec. 10) – In spite of the rain and overcast skies, nearly 500 people from across the nation and the globe gathered for the first international conference on HIV-related stigma on World AIDS Day at Howard University. Doctors, other health care clinicians, elected officials, people ... Read More

Not long into a conversation with Joe Verbalis, MD, a clear picture of his crisp, building-block logic and solution-oriented thinking emerges, reflecting the bygone teenager who dreamed of becoming an engineer. Yet Verbalis found at Princeton University that his characteristic curiosity drew him ins ... Read More

 2010 Awardees National Institutes of Health - Department of Health and Human Services The following descriptions are excerpts from the CTSA applications and reflect proposed activities.Read More

CTSA Website - Participating Institutions Thomas Mellman of Howard University and Joseph Verbalis of Georgetown University share leadership of the Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science.Read More