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Mesulam Center receives $10.4 million grant to continue research of Primary Progressive Aphasia
August 26, 2022 – from Northwestern Now
The Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has been awarded a $10.4 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to support the center’s ongoing research on Primary Progressive Aphasia.
Northwestern receives $10 million for new national energy research center
August 25, 2022
Northwestern University has received $10.35 million over four years from the Department of Energy (DOE) to lead an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) focused on developing hydrogen-based energy technologies, an increasingly important need in the face of climate change.
Who gets to participate in scientific discovery, and who benefits?
August 24, 2022
Northwestern University scientists conducted a survey of 530 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and staff at U.S. academic institutions to examine their motivations and barriers to participation in science outreach.
Paxlovid is vastly underused despite being widely available, study finds
August 23, 2022
Despite clinical trials showing that FDA-approved antiviral therapies like Paxlovid reduce risk of death by as much as 89%, very few infected individuals have used the potentially life-saving treatment.
Diabetes drug metformin shows potential benefit in large COVID-19 trial
August 19, 2022
Metformin, a common, safe and inexpensive drug for type 2 diabetes, lowers the odds of emergency department visits, hospitalizations or death due to COVID-19 by over 40%; and over 50% if prescribed early in onset of symptoms, according to a new multi-site clinical trial led by the University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine was one site in the trial.
‘Forever chemicals’ destroyed by simple new method
August 18, 2022
New process beheads PFAS, causing it to fall apart into benign end products.
COVID-19 test-to-stay programs work
August 18, 2022
Test-to-stay programs in pre-K-8 schools minimize new COVID-19 infections and can help reduce the need for prolonged quarantines for exposed individuals, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Novel telehealth strategy will treat three cancer risk behaviors at once
August 17, 2022
A first-of-its-kind trial, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institutes of Health, will test whether a telehealth-based intervention that addresses all three behavioral risk factors—smoking, overeating and lack of physical activity—at once can modify cancer patients’ lifestyles to improve their outcomes.
Climate-resilient breadfruit might be the food of the future
August 17, 2022
While researchers predict that climate change will have an adverse effect on most staple crops, including rice, corn and soybeans, a new Northwestern University study finds that breadfruit — a starchy tree fruit native to the Pacific islands — will be relatively unaffected.
Why does heat makes us sleepy?
August 17, 2022
Northwestern University neurobiologists have found that fruit flies are pre-programmed to take a nap in the middle of the day. A follow-up to their 2020 Current Biology paper that identified a brain thermometer only active in cold weather, the new paper explores a similar “thermometer” circuit for hot temperatures.