School of Medicine

Photo by Robert BostonGuests socialize during the Sept. 16 opening celebration of the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center on the Medical Campus.

MilbrandtJeffrey Milbrandt, M.D., Ph.D, professor of pathology and immunology, internal medicine and of neurology, will become the first David Clayson Professor of Neurology on Sept. 22.

Neuroscientists at the School of Medicine have assembled a first-of-its kind atlas of the folds of the cerebral cortex, the wrinkled surface layer of the brain credited with many of the higher cognitive functions that make us human.

A new study that enrolled nearly 50,000 women has revealed that digital mammography can detect breast cancer better than conventional film-based mammography in certain groups of women.

The professor of medicine and of molecular biology and pharmacology has served as an M.A./M.D. Program committee member for a decade.

“We really thought that myosin II was just a motor, but it seems to help steer as well,” said senior investigator Paul C. Bridgman.

Larry J. Shapiro will present the annual address at 4 p.m. Sept. 20 and again at noon Sept. 21.

Researchers found about 70 percent of students gained a significant amount of weight between the start of college and the end of sophomore year. More medical news

Photo by Robert BostonThe Mentors in Medicine Program “provides eye-opening research opportunities to bright, young physicians.”

“A large part of my work involves caring for pediatric patients who are undergoing stem-cell transplants,” says Shalini Shenoy, M.D. “I like what I do, because even though a transplant is a fairly rigorous intervention, the end result can be so gratifying — we can reverse a lot of very serious disorders with it.” Shenoy […]