News and Announcements
Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Center for Genetic Medicine. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our members' latest achievements, awards and honors.
05.13.2025More than seven million Americans aged 65 years and older currently live with Alzheimer’s disease, according to recent estimates from the Alzheimer’s Association. As the prevalence of the disease increases, so does the need for research that identifies underlying mechanisms of disease to enhance the effectiveness of current therapies and inform new therapeutic strategies. Center for Genetic Medicine member Robert Vassar, PhD, is featured.
05.06.2025Screening for common genetic variants in addition to rare genetic variants can help improve patient risk stratification for heart failure, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study published in Nature Genetics.
04.16.2025As respiratory viruses spread in Peru and Bolivia, a team of scientists from the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution is working on two projects to develop technical capacity and skills to track the transmission. The team is led by Center for Genetic Medicine member Egon Ozer, MD, PhD, was featured.
04.15.2025At the Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution in the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, scientists are working to explore the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and fungi in a Pakistan health care system. Center for Genetic Medicine member Egon Ozer, MD, PhD is featured.
04.11.2025A new Northwestern Medicine study published in Science has identified a new set of genes that contribute to the risk of Parkinson’s disease, opening the door to previously untapped drug targets for treating the disease.
03.25.2025Investigators from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have discovered new molecular mechanisms behind a genetic heart disorder that can increase the risk of sudden death in children and young adults, according to a recent study published in PNAS.
03.13.2025Investigators in the laboratory of Gemma Carvill, PhD, have discovered novel molecular underpinnings of Dravet syndrome, a rare genetic form of epilepsy in children, that may serve as promising therapeutic targets, according to a recent study.
03.07.2025Investigators are advancing research to support proactive responses in diagnosing and preventing chronic diseases. Across departments, scientists at Feinberg are pursuing new ways of testing to determine a person’s risk of developing chronic conditions.
02.03.2025Scientists from Northwestern Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have uncovered the first rare genetic disorder linked to a long non-coding RNA gene. In this episode, Gemma Carvill, PhD, explains how this discovery, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, came to be and the critical roles non-coding regions of the genome may have in human health.
01.21.2025Dr. Tanner Monroe is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Genetic Medicine in the Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a geneticist and developmental biologist in the McNally Lab. Dr. Monroe’s research focuses on understanding the genetic basis of inherited cardiac diseases, with the goal of improving risk prediction and developing targeted treatments.
12.20.2024From probing the human brain to elucidating mechanisms behind cellular responses, Feinberg investigators have provided stunning new snapshots of biological processes invisible to the naked eye.
10.23.2024Investigators from Feinberg School of Medicine and fellow academic and research institutions celebrated the 100-year anniversary of The Journal of Clinical Investigation during a day-long symposium in the Hughes Auditorium on October 18.
09.26.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new way to measure heart contraction and electrical activity in engineered human heart tissues, according to findings published in Science Advances.
08.26.2024Alan Hauser, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of Microbiology-Immunology and CGM member, has been named the winner of the 2024 Tripartite Legacy Faculty Prize in Translational Science and Education.
07.10.2024Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in lupus and demonstrated that reversing the defect may potentially reverse the disease.
06.24.2024Inflamed heart muscles can mount immune responses even in the absence of immune cells, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
05.23.2024Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new method of measuring and optimizing the maturation process of cultured heart cells, an approach that will set the future standard for a commonly used cell model in scientific research, according to details published in Cell Reports.