Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
“The best laid schemes of mice and men…” begins the oft-quoted line by Robert Burns, with usually no need to finish with “…go often awry.”… Read More »Anticipating the Unexpected: What is Your Plan for When Life Goes Awry?
Academic conferences are an integral part of a graduate student’s training. They are not only a window into the life of a professor but also… Read More »So You Want to Attend an Academic Conference…
Epidemic. We typically associate this word with infectious disease outbreaks, often outside of the United States. But right here in the U.S., we are in… Read More »Opioids: A Different Kind of Epidemic
I finished my first marathon last week, a personal mental marathon that took hundreds of hours to complete—my first year of medical school. Our last… Read More »The Hidden Joys of Medical School
Immunotherapy is rapidly becoming one of the cornerstones of treatment for several types of cancers, and pembrolizumab, a well-known humanized antibody against the checkpoint inhibitor… Read More »First Approval of Cancer Immunotherapy Based on Genetic Marker
Is parabiosis the new fountain of youth? Parabiosis, meaning “living beside,” is a 150-year-old surgical technique that unites the blood vessels of two living animals.… Read More »Human Cord Blood Improves Memory in Old Mice – Surge of Interest in the “Fountain of Youth”
Still half-asleep, I woke up at 4 a.m. to hit the highway for a four-hour drive. I had retired from “moving weight” (selling drugs) to… Read More »Spreading Hope to Those Deemed Hopeless
I recently lost a mentor of mine. Jeff Nye, vice president of neuroscience innovation and scientific partnership strategy at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, passed away… Read More »The Selfless Act of Mentorship
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As a child, my mother would take my siblings and me to the local public library. I would check out so many books that the… Read More »Stop and Smell the Pages